Disclaimer: I do not own bleach! All credits go to Tite Kubo

Silbern Castle North Gate

Ichigo was preparing to leave, everything was ready, though Ichigo was surprised when he noticed the K.G on horses, since the horses were in full bard in steel, while they also had a white skirt with golden edges underneath the armor that almost touched the ground with small silver crosses on it and when Ichigo noticed his own he noticed that the horse was wearing the exact same as everyone else with only two differences.

Ichigo's horse had Ichigo's own sigil on it, and had a bit more gold attached to it's armor, other then that it wasn't much difference, Ichigo did know that using armor was common in the spiritual world, he even wore armor himself during the war, given to him by the zero division, though not as much as these horses wore. He looked around and noticed several wagons and a carriages, which would transport Yuzu, Karin and Masaki aswell as other people. Though Isshin would ride with Ichigo on a horse.

four of them contained food and clothing and storage aswell as one full of silver crosses, and a mobile kitchen to make food, one was even a mobile toilet in case someone should need it, since it was reported a lack of restrooms at the place they were going, though Soul Society did try to make the best of it by transfering outhouses there, the ones Ichigo would bring with him would be a lot less smelly, since it functioned like a toilet with flush capabilities, and another was a vault full of Kan for Ichigo to be able to use when he is in the Soul Society, a total of 4 carriages and 8 wagons.

If it was one thing Ichigo really disliked it was the smell of an outhouse, so he had actually ordered Erwig to create a mobile toilet, and it would come in handy during the trip since it might be quite long from what Ichigo heard, Ichigo looked at his side where Bambietta stood, she had changed her skirt into pants, since she was insisting on riding since she didn't want to sit on a carriage since she found it boring and quite isolating.

Ichigo looked back at the K.G guards, all of them were equiped with swords that were sheathed on their hips, and as usual they wore their masks and barets, some of the guards wore Gichangs, namely spears with flags attached, the flag on the Gichang was a oriflamme flag, with white on the inner half and the silver cross on it, with golden edges.

"Is the armor there for decoration or for protection?" Ichigo asked as he studied the armor on his horse.

"Both really, it is quite durable armor, though i must admit it's not as durable as we had hoped, but a regular grunt would have a lot of trouble going through it, it's only more powerful opponents that needs to be worried about." Ulrik responded behind Ichigo.

"Alright, just keep Kenpachi away from them and everything should be fine." Ichigo responded as he thought about the brute.

"Hah, guess he will have better things to do." Bambietta said with an amused tone.

"Oh?" Ichigo asked as he looked at his girlfriend.

"It's a duel tournament, you really think he will be able to resist?" Bambietta asked amused.

"If anything i'd bet he's already running towards the field now in order to get first in line." Isshin responded with a laugh.

"Yeah, if he finds his way there and not manages to get lost first, after all, north is south for him." Ichigo responded with a small laugh, causing the others to laugh aswell.

"Anyways, the sternritters will be training in the schatten, the outer layers of our world have a time of itself, and can be easily manipulated, in a short time they should have atleast have 30 years of training, and have perfected their ephitets, The only sternritters that will be training seperately is Ulrik and that from my understanding?" Bambietta asked.

"Yeah, from what i heard from Erwig space-time in the schatten is very different, he and Kisuke presumes it is due to the highly moving speed on space-time itself in the void that protects this world, this way they can train without aging at all since their age will return back to normal once they come back here, Kisuke believes that the space-time in the schatten can be manipulated like the Dangai, even though the two are vastly different, if i recall correctly, the K.G did the same during their training didn't they?" Ichigo asked.

"Yeah they did, i got some training with it aswell, if you were counting in schatten years, they would have been training for nearly 200 years in just combat alone, and that is a long time, and to further add to it, you took each and everyone of them into your inner world beforehand and gave them all a massive power increase, they are by far the most powerful military unit in the Wandenreich, considering that everyone of them is equal to the former schützstaffel in terms of strength and power, despite the fact that it took a while to go through 50 000 soldiers, they are the elites elite, all of them higher then captain level fighters, combined they might be even more powerful then the zero division i think... Maybe." Bambietta responded as she looked in thought, trying to compare the two royal guard forces.

"That's the point with the K.G, it was made to be powerful, i've seen weak Shinigami get tossed about everywhere by far more powerful opponents as they were on guard duty and failed a simple job miserably despite numerical advantages, while i can take care of myself i don't intend on having anything happen to my family, what's the point in having a royal guard if it's weak?" Ichigo asked as he looked at Bambietta.

"Good point, besides, unlike the Soul Society we only have the schatten to protect our world, and the seki-seki stone that has been built into the walls of the castle and the tower, along with self repair capabilities and so on... How does the schatten protect us anyways?" Bambietta asked as she looked back at Ichigo.

"Simple, because of it's darkness and vastness, it's easy to get lost, along with time differences will quickly make quick work of any intruder, the void of the schatten functions in the same manner as the endless pit of a garganta, once you get lost there is no way out again with one exception, the schatten is rich on reishi, just like the rest of the Wandenreich and the Soul Society, Quincies can naturally use that to find their path by reishi manipulation, unlike Hollows and Shinigami, who will forever be trapped in there since they can't manipulate reishi, if you can't manipulate reishi then you are lost the moment you enter, after that the time difference will quickly age and kill you if you are there for more then 6 months in Wandenreich time, and to add insult to injury, once you get lost, you won't find your way back either unless of course you are a Quincy or can summon a garganta to get you out. In otherwords the schatten became the shadow of the Wandenreich when it was created, and since this world is massive, it is bound to have a massive shadow aswell, however in order to leave this world you would need a gate of the sun, though there are emergency procedures in place should something unexpected happen in there, Hollows cannot create a Garganta to enter so long as the schatten blocks it's access, to put it in other terms, the Garganta that is attempted to reach here will instead open in the schatten as a natural defence." Ichigo responded honestly, surprising Bambietta by their natural defence.

"I see, that is impressive, but can hollows enter the Wandenreich without going through the schatten?" Isshin asked.

"Yes there is one way, if we connect the Dangai to the Schatten then it is possible to go through the Dangai instead since the Dangai would then be directly connected to the Wandenreich until it is disconnected. That would leave us open to Hollow attacks and intrusions, effectively rendering the schatten defence useless. It was that very principle we used when the Kuchikis and Rurichiyo visited." Ichigo responded

"But wouldn't that render the schatten useless anyways? If they can just connect the Dangai like that your majesty?" Ulrik asked.

"Nope, in order for the Schatten and the Dangai to join together, reishi manipulation is required to immense scales, that is where the research division comes in to the picture, even a million Quincies could not manipulate reishi to that extend, forcing us to rely on technology once more, just like the 12th division of the Gotei controls the Dangai. You can say that it's a joint operation between two research units." Ichigo responded.

"Well if we can manipulate the schatten like that it should be possible to manipulate the space-time within it aswell?" Bambietta asked.

"Yeah, that's what Kisuke believes, Erwig and Kisuke will try some theories after we return and i'll give them the go ahead, regardless the schatten is quite new since it is now a world of it's own and has a lot of mysteries on how it works, something Kisuke and Erwig were eager to find out about." Ichigo responded.

"I see." Bambietta said.

"Regardless, Ulrik will train in my inner world, of all the sternritters we currently have he is by far the most powerful along and have already completed the training since he is part of the K.G and their commander aswell so, the only ones that are more powerful then him are the chancellors, you and me, now that they got their powerup aswell, he just needs to learn how to use his ephitet, anyways did you get 200 years of training in the schatten too or?" Ichigo asked Bambietta.

"I see, kinda, i guess it's more like 50 or something, not sure how to do the math, i just focused on my ephitet training though, better control and all that." Bambietta replied honestly.

"I see, didn't take you for an old hag." Ichigo said jokingly.

Ichigo didn't have time to regret his words as Bambietta slapped her open palm right into Ichigo's balls and closed the palm of her hand, and got a very very good grip, in which she squeezed not so very gently.

"I didn't catch that, mind saying it again?" Bambietta said with ice cold eyes.

"I'm... Sorry..." Ichigo replied in agonizing pain.

"Blame yourself Ichigo... You brought it on yourself haha." Isshin said amused while Ulrik was surprised.

"The... grip... please... leave me one... please..." Ichigo begged as Bambietta still held her firm grip on Ichigo's balls, before letting go.

"Thank you..." Ichigo replied as he tried to walk to his horse, with spread out legs, limping all the way.

"He isn't going to say something like that again." Isshin said amused.

"Hope not, because the next time i'll bring the nut cracker." Bambietta replied annoyed as she turned to head towards Ichigo and her own horse.

"Hug!" A voice came from behind her crying, she turned around and noticed her sister, running as fast as her legs could carry her, obviously afraid that she wouldn't make it.

"What you didn't think i'd leave without one?" Bambietta replied with a smile as she went towards her sister.

Over with Ichigo his limping had gotten a bit better, though he was sure Bambietta tried to steralize him, he knew he would never ever say something stupid like that again, however he didn't think about it for to long as he noticed something, or rather noticed a stuffed animal, trying to sneak his way into the convoy, Ichigo had wondered where the hell he'd been, as he had been searching for him all day.

Much to Ichigo's annoyance since he didn't find him before now, he went over to Kon and grabbed him, effectively surprising Kon greatly since he didn't expect to get caught.

"What are you doing?" Ichigo asked kon as he held him infront of his face.

"I uhh... I wanted to see nee-san again, is that so bad i mean-" Kon said before Ichigo interrupted him.

"I have been searching for you all day, where have you been?" Ichigo asked annoyed.

"Huh? Searching for me? i've been with Erwig and doing whatever you wanted me to do." Kon replied.

"I see, you just finished then i presume? Regardless i did intend for you to come with us, you'll be riding with Mom, Yuzu and Karin in the carriage, and you will share the same tent with me and Bambietta, but no funny business!" Ichigo warned.

"I see, well since i am greatly needed you can always count on me!" Kon said happily.

'Atleast his self esteem and self importance is high enough...' Ichigo thought dumbfounded.

"Your majesty!" A voice came from behind Ichigo, when Ichigo looked back at the source of the voice he noticed Emmerich.

"Emmerich." Ichigo said as he looked at the sternritter.

"The military is still on high alert and ready to respond at any given notice, if you need us you call us." Emmerich said to Ichigo.

"I will, thanks." Ichigo said to Emmerich.

"I should get back to training, if you would excuse me your majesty." Emmerich said with a salute.

"Alright, good luck." Ichigo said.

"Thank you your majesty, and have a safe trip." Emmerich said.

"Thanks." Ichigo said as he watched Emmerich leave.

Regardless Ichigo thought it was time to leave, and gave a nod to Ulrik, which he caught on to.

"Alright, let's embark! You all know the formation, infantry cover the flanks, walk in groups of two, outer group summon spears and shield, inner group of infantry is rifle section, front cavalry will have banner bearers in front and mid, rest of you will use halberds and rifles, halberd unit in front, rifles in mid. opposite on the rear guard!" Ulrik yelled out to the soldiers as they started to mount horses and go in formation, infantry were ready to march out, 150 on horses, 150 walking.

Ichigo noticed Bambietta saying goodbye to her sister, he had heard her earlier but became too preoccupied with Kon, he noticed she had calmed down a bit now that she got her goodbye hug, Masaki, Karin and Yuzu went into their carriage, and Isshin went over to Ichigo and they got on their horses, Bambietta followed later on, after he had checked that everything was in order, Ulrik also mounted up with his sword on his side.

Once everyone was in position they rode out, the banner bearers were many, the sigil of the Wandenreich were flying proudly everywhere, and they left for the gate of the sun to transport them to the Soul Society through the schatten. Ichigo noticed a massive shadow portal opening, the vanguard went through it quickly, and then Ichigo and the rest of the leadership, and then came the rear guard.

Soul Society (West Gate)

Kyoraku had already assembled the captains at the west gate, all awaiting Ichigo's arrival, some other nobles where there aswell, the Shihoin family, the Kasumi-oji family, the Kuchiki family, Shiba family and some other Shinigami had joined in to greet the emperor of the Wandenreich, Kyoraku who stood there in line in front of the captains, He did notice Rukia and Byakuya, who stood there anxiously, but he knew why they were anxious.

Kyoraku did wonder when Ichigo would have the time to commit to his promise and own wishes for his family, but Kyoraku figured he would get it when he would meet central 46 directly in a greeting room, after all they needed to be introduced, this was one of the few occasions central 46 was willing to leave their underground chamber, something that was rarely done.

Kyoraku noted the shadow portal opening from the ground, their guests were about to arrive, and once the portal opened fully, a vanguard of a couple of cavalry guards from the K.G both carrying the Quincy flag on their Gichangs. They were followed by a larger cavalry unit afterwards, with infantry covering the sides, as they marched in, their uniforms and dicipline were even more impressive when you looked at them directly.

And to not mention the horses, however, Kyoraku also noted their powerful reiatsu levels and quickly realized how powerful they were, and sent a signal to the captains to do the same, to say they were shocked would be an understatement. As the situation were, it would be bad if Kenpachi tried to pick a fight with Ichigo, so he needed to be kept in line, it didn't take long for Ichigo to ride in alongside his father, grand mistress, Uryu, and Ulrik, after them came the carriages and the wagons.

The guards positioned themselves in positions of advantage where they could react quickly if something unexpected occured, Kyoraku did note the 8 carriages which was manned by the servants, once Ichigo stopped his horse, some servants made sure he safely got off the horse, once Ichigo had gone off the horse four guards quickly came to his side, along with Ulrik, Bambietta, Uryu and Isshin, while the rest of them got off the carriage.

"Well, it's a pleasure to see you again Ichigo-kun." Kyoraku greeted politely.

"Hi Ichigo." Rurichiyo said with a nod from Kenryu and Enryu.

Several other greeting were heard from the people there.

"Same can be said for you guys." Ichigo said as he approached Kyoraku and the other people present and shook their hands.

"Sorry for the small greeting party, i agreed with central 46 that the first greet would be unofficial, while the next one would be with a lot more pr." Kyoraku said.

"I don't mind at all, atleast it's possible to get off the horse without being squashed." Ichigo said with a smile, causing Kyoraku to laugh.

"True, though when the event starts you will probably notice the press, good thing you brought guards, you might need them to protect you from reporters. Anyways may i speak with you in private?" Kyoraku replied.

"Of course, dad will you make sure Kon stays in line?" Ichigo said as he looked at Kon.

"Sure." Isshin said as he grabbed Kon and lifted him up.

"My my, uncle Isshin, been a while since i've seen you here, hope you enjoy your stay, along with the rest of you." Kyoraku said.

"Thanks, i got some catching up to do myself." Isshin said as he looked at Toshiro and Rangiku, and the rest of his family, motioning for his wife and daughters to join him.

Ichigo had gone with Kyoraku some fair distance away, he wondered what he wanted, but after having a talk with him for a couple of Minutes, Ichigo was surprised to learn that it was a request, and while the request came as a surprise for him he didn't have any objections to it and decided to play along with the request. After the talk was meetings was over they decided to move along with the day.

However it didn't take long before they were forced to spring into action, as Kon had gotten out of the carriage and started to charge at Rukia, which only got Kon stomped, as Rukia gave him her regular foot greeting, causing Ichigo to sigh, figuring that there was no hope for Kon at all. The greeting took 15 minutes in total before they eventually decided to be on their way.

Soul Society (Kuchiki Manor)

They had seperated from the rest of the convoy, as the wagons continued towards the arena, with the exception of the portable toilet and the carriage, The soldiers had split in half as they made two groups, and split the cavalry and infantry, half the infantry and half the cavalry was now with the royal family guarding them while the rest of them continued onwards towards the arena where Soul Society's duels would be fought. The majority of the guards that accompanied Ichigo waited at the first division barracks, while a few entered as a security escort to Ichigo and the other Quincies.

Kyoraku, Ginrei, Rukia, Byakuya and Kisuke alongside the Shiba family had followed the Quincy to the Kuchiki manor, Kyoraku had opted to join in to see if the revival would work, While the other people that greeted them went to prepare for their own trips to the arena where the tournament would be held.

Once Ichigo and his family had entered the Kuchiki manor they were greeted by the servants and the family elders, all of whom bowed respectfully to the royal family as they entered. Ichigo greeted the servants with a wave before they went to return to their duties, while Ichigo had a longer conversation and got acquainted with the family elders of the Kuchiki family.

The rest of the Kurosaki family also greeted the elders, though the Shiba family had greeted them earlier, they did greet them again as a sign of courtesy. As soon as Ichigo had gotten enough of those greetings he approached Kyoraku, Ginrei and Kisuke.

"Lord Ginrei, head captain Kyoraku, Kisuke. I would like to initate the revival process now if you wouldn't mind? That way it can be done with." Ichigo said as he looked at the trio.

"Are you sure you do not want to eat lunch first your majesty?" Ginrei asked curiously, Though he wondered why Ichigo wouldn't want lunch beforehand.

"I figured we could have lunch with those that will be brought back if it works unless that would be a burden?" Ichigo said, much to the approval of Ginrei, since he thought it sounded better.

"I understand, it would not be a burden as I would believe that to be a better choice." Ginrei responded with a small hint of happiness, it was obvious that he really wanted this to work for his grandchildrens sake.

"Lord Ginrei, I can have the servants prepare, as we have made plenty of food for your trip." One of the elders said that had overheard the conversation.

"Please do." Ginrei said to the elder.

"I will tell Byakuya and Rukia." Kyoraku said as he turned around.

"Very well, it is six revivals in total, make sure that i have six containers." Ichigo said to Ulrik who was standing right behind him.

"Yes your majesty, i will have one of the guards bring six." Ulrik said.

"Six revivals? Don't you mean five?" Kisuke asked, while Kyoraku and Ginrei looked at Ichigo

"No, six, i have an additional one, you will find out soon who, but it is to repay a huge favor, she deserves another chance with him." Ichigo responded.

"She? Who do you refer to?" Kyoraku asked.

"If it works, you'll see and i figure you would be in agreement for everything she's done for us all." Ichigo responded, causing more curiosity from the trio, though Ulrik and Bambietta already knew.

"I see, well my curiosity is very much peaked now." Kisuke responded, causing Ichigo to chuckle.

"Shall we go outside? I believe it would be better to do this outside." Ichigo said as he looked at Ginrei.

"Very well. Everyone if I may have your attention." Ginrei said to Ichigo and then tried to grab the attention of everyone else.

"His majesty emperor Ichigo and I have reached an agreement where we will now attempt to bring back some of our deceased, and if successful will also be attending lunch, we will immediately move out to the garden. The family elders can wait here for the time being." Ginrei said loudly to everyone and then moved to show Ichigo out to the garden as a sign of courtesy.

Ichigo gave a glance to Ulrik and gave a nod before Ulrik pulled out a radio and calling for a guard, 4 guards decided to accompany Ichigo and his family while Bambietta, Ulrik and Uryu followed, though Uryu was lagging behind as Uryu had been more busy with greeting the elders.

As soon as they came outside a 5th guard had arrived carrying a briefcase, which contained all of the containers, the briefcase was highly secure and designed to be very durable and Ichigo had to use his authorisation seal to open it by summoning a high security access key through the security seal placed on him in the vault.

As soon as the briefcase was opened Ichigo took out six containers, the others watched as Ichigo prepared, anxiously waiting to see if Ichigo's powers really could bring back souls, it was common knowledge that Ichigo had the same powers and capabilities if not greater then the Soul King himself, so in theory it should be possible, but it all demanded on how much Ichigo could control his three powers.

As soon as Ichigo was ready he moved into position, facing away from the spectators. Everyone was waiting with baited breath.

'Alright, here I go, are you sure we can do this Yhwach?' Ichigo said internally.

"Quite sure, all you need to do is to take the life force into your hands and activate the auswählen, and focus on finding the reishi of the people you want to revive, it is a different procedure then reviving a deceased body, but it is possible. Just follow my instructions to the letter." Yhwach said in Ichigo's mind.

Ichigo did as he was told, he took the containers and opened them and then he activated the auswählen and his hands began to glow and 6 beams of light came down from the sky, Ginrei, Yuzu and Karin had never seen this before, only heard about it so it was a marvelous sight to behold, Yuzu and Karin were both speechless, and just watched with eager anticipation of what happened next.

'Alright, now what?' Ichigo internally asked Yhwach.

"Now focus on finding the reishi of the people you want to revive, you must use all three of your powers for this in order to feel the different reishi presences, but once you find them connect each individual into their own beam. But remember, it's reishi presences you must search for, you cannot feel the reiatsu of deceased individuals for obvious reasons Ichigo." Yhwach said.

Ichigo did as he was told as he scanned the Soul Society for the reishi presences, it took a while but Ichigo first found Hisana's reishi since hers was closer, he assembled it into the first beam of light, as everyone watched the blue visible reishi floating into the light. Then he found Kaien's and Miyako's reishi, he focused on Kaien at first, placing his reishi into the second beam, and Miyako's into the third beam.

He then focused on the fourth one, which was quite easy to find since it wasn't as widely spread out, and he put the reishi into the fourth beam, before he eventually tried to find the fifth, which was quite hard, since it was so widely spread out due to how the person died. It took a while but he found reishi piece by reishi piece, and put it into the fifth beam, it took 4 whole minutes for Ichigo to successfully be able to piece the reishi together, which was the longest of them.

He then focused on the sixth beam, he searched and searched, but to no avail, he didn't find the reishi of that individual, much to Ichigo's dismay. Bambietta and Uryu noticed Ichigo's solemn face and wanted to ask if everything was okay but figured it was best to see the result and not break his concentration.

"That's... Weird... This shouldn't be possible? It should be here... Try again!" Yhwach said to Ichigo, prompting Ichigo to do as Yhwach said but once more it failed.

'I have found everyone except the last one... What's going on?' Ichigo internally asked.

"I don't know Ichigo, something is not right, every hollow killed returns to the Soul Society so it should be here awaiting reincarnation, and that process would take years, not even Hisana who was gone for the longest time have even been close to starting reincarnation. Is it possible he didn't come here?" Yhwach said.

"He did come here, you and I both felt it when he stabbed himself." Zangetsu said internally.

"I don't know what is going on, but it appears that the sixth one is impossible for now, tell Kisuke and Kyoraku when you are finished, something is not right here." Yhwach said.

'Alright... I really hoped i could bring them all back... I'm just glad we never told her our plan... This way she won't have had any expectations or knowledge of it...' Ichigo thought in defeat.

"Regardless, you have the five promised, and that isn't bad at all Ichigo, we can ask for an investigation into the last one once you bring them back, just focus the life force into the five beams and put the sixth life force in the container for later use, remember to deactivate the sixth beam before you focus the life force into the reishi." Yhwach said.

Ichigo did as was told, and the spectators was surprised to see the sixth beam disappear without a trace and Ichigo putting life force into the sixth container, everyone noticed Ichigo's solemn look and understood that something had gone wrong with the sixth one, Kisuke and Kyoraku wondered what had happened and openly began to speculate with each other, which prompted Ginrei to join in on the speculation aswell.

Bambietta, Isshin and Uryu speculated openly aswell, while Yuzu, Karin and Masaki listened alongside Kukaku and Ganju, while Ulrik stood there and watched the surroundings in case someone should attack, not caring about the auswählen, everyone was amazed when the beams filled with even brighter light and the reishi began to take form of 5 individuals.

It took some seconds but eventually the reishi manifested into beings, once more back to life. They were all brought back at the same time, and once they were fully formed the beams vanished, and the five individual people fell on the ground full of life once more, as they began to move and raise themselves up, even the clothes they wore when they died was on them.

Ichigo was amazed himself as he never knew he could do this, as this is the first time something like this has ever been done, everyone knew that a transcended being had the power to do so, but still this was the first time. Ichigo looked at the people he brought back, and saw that they were well, unlike the human body, they didn't show any sign of fatigue or tiredness.

The first one to open the eyes were Kaien, who were quite surprised. Ichigo watched the last four opened their eyes, namely Miyako, Hisana, Yamamoto and Ukitake. The last two which was a request from Kyoraku and central 46, Eventually Miyako spoke as she looked at Ichigo.

"Kaien?" Miyako asked as she looked at Ichigo.

"Miyako?" Kaien said, prompting Miyako to look to her side and noticed her husband.

For Yamamoto on the other hand it was different, he opened his eyes and saw the ground, before he noticed Ichigo's black and white boots and the black cape and a white trench coat, and before anyone could say any more, Yamamoto had reacted.

"All Things in the Universe, Turn to Ashes, Ryūjin Jakka!" Yamamoto yelled out as he quickly unsheathed his sword and went on the offensive.

The K.G were quick to react, Ulrik had already flashed in front of Ichigo before anybody knew what was going on, with the rest of the guards right behind him, the guards had manifested shields and drew their swords and created a shieldwall infront of Ichigo, in a speed which surprised everyone there except Ichigo and Bambietta, which already knew the K.G's total capability.

Once Ulrik had seen the shieldwall up he flashed behind the shieldwall quickly before the raging flames hit, and it all happened in nearly an instant. Much to Yamamoto's surprise the shieldwall held up his attack, only then did he and Ukitake notice the person who truly wore the black cape. Much to their surprise, but before Yamamoto could sheathe his zanpakuto, Ulrik had charged, he flashed in front of Yamamoto in an attempt to slit his throat.

Yamamoto dodged but barely, he was surprised by the speed Ulrik showed, Yamamoto immediately tried to counter Ulrik by launching a massive flame attack towards him, causing Ulrik to immediately activate blut vene in the last second before the flames engulfed him, but much to Yamamoto's surprise the flames barely scratched Ulrik, while it did ruin the sleeves on his uniform his blut had completely deflected Ryūjin Jakka's flames.

Just as Ulrik got a small view of Yamamoto through the flames he had prepared 4 heilig pfeils on his sword and aimed it towards Yamamoto and fired, the arrows shot through the air at massive speed with massive power, Yamamoto dodged the attack as the arrows hit a wall and shattered part of the wall, an attack more powerful then even that of the regular sternritter, Yamamoto knew he had to be careful not to get hit by them.

As Yamamoto turned his attention back to Ulrik however Ulrik was already right infront of Yamamoto and before Yamamoto could react Ulrik punched Yamamoto in the gut with tremendous force, throwing Yamamoto backwards into a wall, but Yamamoto quickly recovered and flashed behind Ulrik in an attempt to finish him off from behind, However Ulrik managed to turn around quickly and block the attack with his sword, leaving them to stare right into each others eyes.

"You fight well boy." Yamamoto said as he was impressed with being challanged to this degree.

"Thank you for your words of praise, I wasn't selected as a sternritter of his majesty's army and the supreme commander of the Keiserliche Garde, for no reason!" Ulrik responded.

"Keiserliche Garde?" Yamamoto asked.

"That would be the Quincy royal guard, namely my guards old man, I would appreciate it if you two would stop fighting here and now." Ichigo said as he looked at the two of them.

Yamamoto looked at Ichigo and noticed the people that formerly was besides him, and then he noticed Ichigo with the same cape as Yhwach wore, and then he noticed the Quincy and the Shinigami standing side by side, everyone was impressed and shocked with what they had just witnessed, even the elders had come out to see what was going on.

Ulrik had already sheathed his sword and went over to Ichigo, prompting Yamamoto to seal Ryūjin Jakka and he sheathed his zanpakuto as he noticed Kyoraku who had also gone over to Ichigo, Yamamoto looked at them both for answers, from the looks of it Ukitake didn't know anything either.

"What is going on Kyoraku? I'm pretty sure I died?" Ukitake asked.

"Let us go in and talk, and have some lunch, this must be very confusing to you all." Ginrei said to them as he showed the way to the table with lots of food on it.

Kaien and Miyako noticed the Shiba family standing there, though he was surprised by his uncle's uniform, as it wasn't a Shinigami uniform, Hisana on the other hand noticed Byakuya standing there with wide eyes, before he lowered them to the person standing next to him, causing Hisana to look at the girl and she immediately knew who she was, which caused a massive shock for her as she was stunned to silence, regardless they all went in for lunch.

***1 Hour Later***

"I see, so that is what has happened." Yamamoto said calmly, though he was surprised to hear that Ichigo had defeated Yhwach with Aizen's help and became the new Quincy king, and emperor.

"This was surely unexpected, you marrying a Quincy, and taking on the name Kurosaki and now a member of a royal family, and to think that Ichigo was your son, no wonder he looks like Kaien. Anyways i'm glad to see that you are in good health." Ukitake said as he looked Isshin.

"Well what can i say, handsomeness has always been a family trait hahaha." Isshin said in an amused tone, causing Kaien to deadpan.

Though Kaien and Miyako took a closer look at their cousin, the one that defeated a man not even the strongest Shinigami was capable of defeating, not even the zero division, the same cousin that now was a god and had given them their life back, he also looked at the girl besides Ichigo, both of whom was obviously flirting with each other.

"So." Kaien said with a smirk, causing Ichigo and Bambietta to look at him.

"You are uncle Isshin's son, and an emperor at that too huh?" Kaien said.

"Yes that is correct, and these two over there are Yuzu and Karin, both my sisters, and the one over there is my mother, Masaki Kurosaki." Ichigo said as he looked over at Yuzu and Karin and then Masaki.

"Ohh, never thought that clumsy idiot of an uncle would ever get it past second phase." Kaien said with a small laugh.

"Kaien, please be nice... Anyways I'm Miyako Shiba, Kaien's wife, I'm pleased to make your acquantance, I must say you have two lovely and beautiful sisters, and a beautiful mother." Miyako said, causing Yuzu and Karin to blush, though Masaki smiled at the comment.

"Thank you, may i say you are even more beautiful Miyako-san. Girls, what do you say when someone says nice things to you?" Masaki said with a gentle and warm smile.

"Thank you." Yuzu said a little embarrassed.

"Thanks." Karin said with a small blush.

"And that is your girlfriend Ichigo?" Kukaku asked Ichigo as she looked at Bambietta.

"Yes that is my beautiful daughter-in-law, soon they will be married and have plenty of children, they have even been nice enough to consumate their relationship, all it needs now is a little accident and I will be a grandfather, I'M SO HAPPY!" Isshin said out, causing Ichigo, Bambietta, Karin, Yuzu, Kaien and Miyako to blush deeply in embarrassment, though not as much as Ichigo and Bambietta.

"Ohhh? Tell me what is your favorite position?" Kukaku asked with a grin on her face as she faced Bambietta.

"W-w-w-what!? T-t-that is a p-private question!" Bambietta stammered out in embarrassment and shock.

"Kukaku, Isshin, That is very rude, and not appropriate!" Kaien said in a scolding manner.

"Sorry.." Kukaku said, surprising Ichigo a lot.

"Anyways, four eyes over there is my other cousin, Uryu Ishida, he is also one of the chancellors of the Wandenreich, and this one is Bambietta Basterbine, my girlfriend and the grand mistress of the Wandenreich's armed forces and my second in command." Ichigo said.

"Oh, I see, Nice to meet you Bambietta. I'm Kaien Shiba" Kaien said as he smiled at Bambietta.

"Nice to meet you too, people usually call me Bambi." Bambietta said.

"I see, It's nice to meet you Bambi, I'm Miyako Shiba." Miyako said with her usual gentle smile.

While the introductions went on Ichigo looked outside and noticed Byakuya, Rukia and Hisana standing there, Hisana was hugging Rukia and holding her tightly, while Byakuya had a very rare smile on his face, it was obvious that he was happy, Kisuke wanted to check Hisana's health to see if the auswählen had cured her of her chronic disease, or if she still had it, regardless he would do it after they had talked with each other and spent sometime together per agreement.

Kaien did notice it aswell as he wondered what Ichigo looked at, and it would be a lie to say that he didn't find the meeting between the two sisters wonderful, even Ukitake looked on and smiled. Ichigo brought his attention to Bambietta quickly however as he grabbed her hand and held it, he felt the soft silk like fabric of Bambietta's glove, and he couldn't help but to give a quick kiss on Bambietta's forehead before anyone noticed, though he did fail miserably as everyone did notice it.

"So Ichigo, now that you are the ruler of a new world, and the leader of all the Quincy, in which we have been at war with for the last thousand years, what do you intend to do now?" Yamamoto asked Ichigo.

Everyone looked at Ichigo awaiting his answer.

"My primary goal is to build a safe place for the Quincy to be in, and to protect them against any threat, to lead them to a brighter future then what Yhwach brought them." Ichigo simply responded.

"From my understanding the Quincy no longer upsets the balance due to alterations and every Quincy being connected to you, does that mean that an alliance between the Soul Society and the Wandenreich is possible?" Ukitake asked, hoping for a good answer.

Yamamoto didn't want to admit that he had hoped that it was a possibility despite historical problems with them, and opted to remain quiet, not that he wanted the Soul Society to be dependand on allies, but they were important and alliances worked two ways, so it could be very beneficial.

"It has verbally been formed already, we had a diplomatic visit in the Wandenreich a little while ago by the Kuchiki and Kasumioji families, now we are here on a diplomatic visit to the tournament, in an attempt to create better diplomatic ties." Ichigo responded.

"I see, that is good." Ukitake said

"Anyways Ichigo, I would like to speak with you later." Kukaku said.

"Very well then." Ichigo responded to his cousin.

Ichigo noticed the Kuchikis coming back inside, sitting down at the table, while Ichigo did notice that Hisana and Byakuya were a bit conflicted and troubled, Ichigo didn't know why they were troubled, but Hisana looked at him, before she stood up once more and went over to him, she just looked at him and then respectfully bowed before him.

"Thank you for helping Rukia your majesty, and thank you for being her friend." Hisana said while bowing down infront of Ichigo.

Ichigo was a bit surprised by this, frankly he didn't know why she thanked him, helping friends is only natural.

"And thank you for saving her when Byakuya-sama was conflicted and helping him with his conflict..." Hisana said in a voice that showed gratitude.

Now Ichigo understood, it would appear that Byakuya had decided to come clean to his wife rather then to lie to her.

"Don't mention it, I would beat the gotei 13 anytime to save someone I care about." Ichigo said to Hisana as she gave him a gentle smile before she went back to her seat.

Kaien and Miyako was wondering what she was talking about, but got the explanation from Ukitake and how Ichigo became their allies and Ichigo's deeds for the Soul Society, it was kinda hilarious because it looked like the two of them didn't know how to react, or what was more amazing, Ichigo successfully invading the Soul Society with a small party or his strength and capabilities with minimal training or achieving Bankai in three days, but what was obvious is that they were both amazed with Ichigo, they just didn't know what amazed them the most.

"Well I'll be... Guess you really are amazing." Kaien said with a grin as he looked at Ichigo.

"Well of course he is! He is my son after all hahaha." Isshin said with a mocking laugh.

"That's why I'm amazed, I always expected your son to be goofy like you, but i guess your son is more of a man then you are." Kaien said nonchalantly, leaving Isshin to sulk in a corner.

Masaki smirked at the comment, while Ichigo and Karin grinned from ear to ear, Yuzu sat there not saying anything at all. Though Kaien did laugh of Isshin in the end.

"Anyways now that you're back Yama-jii I suppose i must hand in my head-captains Haori, here you go." Kyoraku said with a sly smile as he took off his Haori and gave it to his predecessor.

"You don't like the position Kyoraku?" Ukitake asked with a smile.

"No he can have it back, just say the word and I will demote myself." Kyoraku said with a sheepish grin.

"Foolish boy, I am retired! The position is yours to keep, I will be finding myself a nice place to live in!" Yamamoto said with a small chuckle.

Kyoraku sighed in defeat, he was stuck in the position of head-captain with no way out, only he tried once more.

"Ukitake?" Kyoraku asked hopeful of his response.

"I'm sorry Kyoraku but i think I will retire aswell." Ukitake said, causing Rukia to widen her eyes.

"But captain Ukitake, 13th division is without a captain!" Rukia said trying to point out that he was needed.

"I know, but you are it's lieutenant, and 13th division is still holding true from what i hear, due to your contributions." Ukitake said.

"I see, very well, I will do my best to keep it intact." Rukia said as she bowed to Ukitake.

Ukitake smiled at her before taking his attention to Kyoraku, who just nodded with a smirk on his face, while Ukitake nodded with a knowing smile.

"Will you be attending the tournament?" Ginrei asked Ukitake and Yamamoto.

"Hmm, well it might be a good way to see how people are doing." Ukitake said in his usual happy manner.

"A tournament, it's been a while I've been at one, very well." Yamamoto said as he gave it a thought.

"Then you may travel with us, if the Quincy do not object?" Kyoraku said as he looked at Ichigo.

"I have no objections, only urges to have them join us." Ichigo said with a small smile, causing Kyoraku and Ukitake to return the smile.

For the duration of their stay at the Kuchiki manor they did enjoy the rest of their lunch and conversations, getting to know each other better, Ichigo did like Kaien a lot, once they were preparing to leave the revived people were surprised by how the horses were outfited.

The Kuchiki family along with Kyoraku, Ukitake and Yamamoto, would travel alongside the Quincy, since the Shiba family was considered part of the Quincy royal family they would travel by carrige, with Kukaku and Miyako in the carrige, while Kaien and Ganju riding horses, much to Ganju's dismay since he wanted to ride on his little bonny. Something that Ichigo outright refused to allow since it would give a bad image to the Wandenreich. Forcing Ganju to ride on a horse.

While Yamamoto, Kyoraku and Ukitake would be transportet on a rickshaw, Hisana, Byakuya, Rukia and Hisana would be transported on a litter, They would join up with the Shihoin and Kasumioji family along the way and had agreed to regroup with them at the gate leading out of the Seireitei. Once everything was seen to and everyone was ready they all rode of or was being carried, with a Quincy royal guard group functioning as a vanguard.

Though Byakuya had insisted on having some Kuchiki sigils around, leaving some of his own servants to carry banners. Since the Quincy carried flags of the Silver cross on gichangs. And there were plenty of Quincy flags flying around, If anything the Quincy party looked like a party of medieval knights from Europe, and the similarity would be striking if the soldiers had worn armour aswell.

Karakura Town (Someones Apartment)

Three people with red uniforms had just entered an apartment, they looked around and noticed that the apartment truly was empty, they started to scan around in detail, looking for something, until a brown haired person found a note, which he opened and read.

"Seems like no one is home." The brown haired person said.

"No shit idiot." A blonde woman with long hair said.

"What does that note say?" Another one with blue hair asked.

"The Soul Society and the Wandenreich are having a diplomatic visit, their second one as a matter of fact." The brown haired person.

"What? They have already begun diplomatic visits? And this is their second one?" The blonde woman asked surprised.

"Apparantly so, and to add insult to injury the Quincy have just finished the construction of a fort here, named Fort Karakura, though some equipment are still being installed, that fort would notice us quickly, but the amount of men the fort has is yet to be determined." The brown haired person said.

"WHAT!? Damn Quincy... Gotta give it to them, they work fast, we didn't even have time to react to this..." The blue haired person said.

"Is the Fort manned?" The blonde woman asked.

"Yes, it is." The brown haired person said.

"Can our informant get something on it?" The blue haired person asked.

"Not sure." The brown haired person said.

"Who is this informant?" The blonde woman asked.

"You do not need to know who it is. What you can know is that we have informants in the Soul Society and one in the Wandenreich." The blue haired person said.

"I know about our spies in the Soul Society, but i didn't know we have spies in the Wandenreich, why not have them do their jobs?" The blonde woman said.

"Spy to be precise." The brown haired person said.

"What?" The blonde woman asked.

"We only have one spy in the Wandenreich, due to the Wandenreich secret police, it's difficult to spy on the Wandenreich as security is tight, we only have one spy there, and we got lucky with that one." The brown haired person said.

"How come?" The blonde asked.

"Normally any spy would have been noticed by the A.N.U quickly and dealt with, the only reason we managed to get so subtle is because this one is quite close to the top brass of the Wandenreich." The blue haired person said.

"So what? The emperor of the Wandenreich got a spy around him?" The blonde woman asked, laughing.

"Yes, he does, as does the chancellors and the grand mistress, funny thing is they don't even suspect a thing." The blue haired person said.

The blond woman now broke down in laughter, mocking the Wandenreich royal family completely.

"I wouldn't laugh for too long..." The brown haired person said.

"Why not!? It's hilarious." The blonde woman said.

"With this information we can now go into action, and the higher ups wants us to pull out our spy, making our spy into an assassin for when our spy is pulled out." The brown haired person said, surprising both of his companions.

"WHAT? That's stupidity!" The blue haired person said.

"I know... But it's our orders." The brown haired person said.

"So we pull out our only spy there?" The blonde woman asked.

"Yes." The brown haired person said.

"So we will try to assassinate the emperor of the Wandenreich?" The blue haired person asked.

"That is correct, cut of the head of the snake and the body stops moving." The brown haired person said

"Think it will succeed?" The blue haired person asked.

"It has to, otherwise we have other means if it fails, if we get a second chance that is." The brown haired person replied.

"Hah, he'll die on the first attempt." The woman said with a grin

"Anyways get word out to the higher ups, tell them about the Fort." The brown haired person said to the woman.

"Why me?" The woman asked.

"Because I outrank you! Now go!" The brown haired person said.

"You and I will be checking out the Fort." The brown haired person said to the blue haired person, causing him to nod and they had left.

To be continued

A/N: Alright so I decided to bring several more into the story since I want to have them integrated into the story aswell, they will have their roles to play.

So the ending was a little teaser about things to come, some have been asking whether or not the action will soon start, well since it's teased it is very close and the wheel of fate has slowly begun to spin.

Trivia: A Gichang is a spear that works as a flag pole or banner pole, You can actually see something that looks like a gichang with Quincy banners being held up by soldats in Hueco Mundo in manga chapter 487