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

Rukon Arena (Interior)

***Battleground***

"And... BEGIN!" Kyoraku said as he flashed away from the field of battle.

Rukia and Toshiro drew their swords, unlike Ichigo and Kenpachi, Toshiro instead of going on the offensive decided to get some distance and jumped away as quickly as he could.

"Reign upon the frosted heavens, Hyorinmaru!" Toshiro said as a ice dragon flew out of the blade.

The dragon went right for Rukia, she took out the palm of her hand and aimed at the ice dragon.

"Hado 33, Sokatsui!" Rukia said as her palm glowed blue before firing the raging blue fire Kido left the palm of her hand.

The kido strike was successful in destroying the ice dragon and kept going towards Toshiro, forcing Toshiro to flash away to avoid the impact zone, he was fully aware that Rukia was trained by the zero division personally and not an opponent to be taken lightly, however the ice shards from the dragon managed to injure Rukia's arm.

"Dance, Sode no Shirayuki!" Rukia said as her zanpakuto changed to her release command.

Toshiro went on the offensive before she could use any abilities, he flashed in front of her and brought his sword down, Rukia barely dodged it but her shihakusho managed to get cut around her left arm, Rukia however lifted her arm and pointed a finger at Toshiro.

"Bakudo 61, Rikujokoro!" Rukia said as 6 beams of light appeared and hit Toshiro successfully.

"Ryojin Hyoheki" Toshiro said as finely made ice threads appeared and created a protective wall in front of Toshiro as he struggled to get free.

Rukia, not wanting to take any chances decided to make a move before Toshiro could get free, as she held her Zanpakuto upside down.

"Some no mai, Tsukishiro!" Rukia said as she made a slashing motion with her blade and the ground beneath Toshiro began to glow, and suddenly ice fired up.

The spectators were surprised by this, and when the ice broke many thought it was over, but when the ice cracked and vanished, Toshiro was no longer there, which surprised Rukia, she looked around and didn't notice Toshiro at all, until she noticed a Shadow and realized he was attacking from above, Rukia managed to parry the attack with her Zanpakuto just in the nick of time.

As the two blades clashed they both fought for dominance over who would push the other back, however neither managed to assert their dominance over the clash and they both pulled back, getting some distance from one another, Rukia took the distance as an opportunity and made a circle of ice and punctured the ground four times as she called out the name.

"Tsugi no mai, Hakuren!" Rukia said as a powerful avalanche went flying towards Toshiro.

Toshiro tried to flash away to avoid it but the avalanche was faster then he anticipated, making sure he got caught right into it, his right arm and both legs froze in spot, forcing Toshiro to do something he never expected to be forced to do so early into the battle.

"Bankai, Daiguren Hyorinmaru!" Toshiro said as wings appeared on his body with their usual ice flower petal timer.

Rukia frowned at seeing this, she had learned that Toshiro's bankai was leathal, and what the petals really mean, she knew she somehow had to finish this before the timer ran out and the bankai was complete, pondering how to finish the fight and ensure her own victory, she went on the offensive.

***Quincy Stand***

"Ahh, he activated his bankai." Bambietta said as she looked at the field.

"Indeed he did, guess Rukia pushed him more then he thought she would." Ichigo said.

"There is no way Toshiro will lose now." Isshin said.

"That's cheating!" Kaien said annoyed over the fact that Toshiro was using bankai.

"What makes you say that dad?" Ichigo asked.

"Toshiro's bankai will take dominance over the field, how can Rukia fight against a bankai?" Isshin asked.

"You say that now, but I doubt Toshiro would be able to match Rukia's bankai when she activates it." Ichigo said.

The words Ichigo chose made Isshin, Kaien and Miyako surprised, they never knew that Rukia had obtained a bankai, so the news were quite surprising to say the least.

"So she has a bankai?" Miyako asked Ichigo curiously.

"Yes, though I have yet to see it, from what I heard, Hakka no Togame can be very terrifying and powerful, just as it is powerful it also carries immense risks, which would explain why Rukia hasn't activated it yet, or she still lacks proper control over it, meaning that the risks might be too much for her this early on." Ichigo said as he looked at Miyako.

"What are those risks?" Kaien asked.

"You'll see." Ichigo said as he turned his attention back to the match.

"Furthermore, Rukia's zanpakuto is nothing but an extension of her own reach isn't it? She fights with her shikai using her own body temperature? It is a terrifying power in her shikai alone." Uryu said as he looked at Ichigo.

"I believe that is true, though I'm not entirely sure how exactly her abilities work, I do know that her zanpakuto can decrease her body temperature to absoulte zero, meaning anything she touches will instantly turn to ice if she does so, though even that has immense risks and limits, Toshiro really picked a bad opponent." Ichigo said with a sly smirk, figuring the outcome of this match as everyone else was left surprised except Uryu.

***Battleground***

"Hado 33, Sokatsui!" Rukia said as she fired off another sokatsui at Toshiro

Toshiro dodged it and flew into the air, hovering before he took his zanpakuto forward and flew right at Rukia, just as he did a petal shattered behind him, causing Rukia to frown, furthermore what alarmed her was the rate Toshiro flew towards her at, along with his speed, she immediately knew what he had intended, instead of dodging she took it as an opportunity, and welcomed the attack.

"Ryusenka!" Toshiro said as he flew right into Rukia, causing a massive ice flower to appear, once more the battle was thought to be over, but the flower cracked, before finally collapsing.

Toshiro looked in shock at the flower, he didn't know how Rukia broke it but she did, what truly shocked him however was the fact that Rukia remained unscathed from the attack, as it didn't cause any injuries on Rukia whatsoever, not even a single scratch, that's when Toshiro recalled what Sode no Shirayuki truly was, a mere extension of Rukia's reach, meaning that Rukia was practically her own blade with her shikai.

Before Toshiro could act Rukia had flashed behind him, cutting him in the stomach, Toshiro's suspicions came true when he realized he wasn't bleeding and the wound was frozen. Toshiro frowned at this, as the ice started to spread across his body, he used his own ice however to stop it, which bearly worked as his own ice struggled against the immensely cold temperature of Rukia's zanpakuto.

The last thing Toshiro expected to do was to use his own ice upon himself, Rukia wasn't even using bankai, which he now was grateful for, realizing how powerful her shikai is the last thing he needed now was her bankai, but despite him using bankai, and Rukia still using shikai, he was losing this battle, some would call it humiliating under normal circumstances, but Rukia had also trained with the zero division so it made sense for her to be this powerful, and for that reason the circumstances weren't normal.

Despite the facts Toshiro decided to continue, refusing to yield in order to show that the 10th was not some division to mess around with, as Rukia clearly represented 13th, this was a battle for the pride of their very divisions, so yielding was not an option, one of them would have to fall in battle, which forced Toshiro to commit himself to a last attempt, hoping it would work.

Turning around he pointed his blade at Rukia as pillars of ice emerged, hoping to catch her and force her into defeat this way.

"Sennen Hyoro!" Toshiro said as he turned his blade 90 degrees counter-clockwise, and the ice began to circle around Rukia and close in on her, until it finally trapped her inside.

Toshiro figured this was it, hoping she would yield, but he knew it was just hope, another petal shattered behind him, as the timer hadn't run out yet, suddenly ice cold mist appeared, causing Toshiro to look around in wonder, before finally realizing what it was, it was now Rukia had decided to go for the finishing blow.

"Bankai, Hakka no Togame." Rukia said as she ice prison shattered, and Rukia took on her most beautiful form, with her white hair and white kimono, what Toshiro was fearful would happen had happened, his ice prison had been shattered and failed to contain her as her ice in this state was dominant, unlike Sode no Shirayuki, Hyorinmaru wasn't a zanpakuto that reached absolute zero, which is how she asserted her dominance over the ice.

***Quincy Stand***

"Beautiful." Yuzu said in awe.

"Yes it is." Masaki replied.

Kaien and Isshin stood there and watched the scene, Kaien was stunned by the view and Isshin hadn't expected that Rukia had a bankai at all, though he was never told so it made sense, Miyako stood there with her mouth wide, even Bambietta was stunned by the view as this was the first time she saw something like this.

"Checkmate." Ichigo said with a smile.

***Kuchiki Stand***

"Her bankai is as beautiful as they say, truly worthy of Rukia." Ginrei said with a rare smile.

"Indeed it is, Rukia has the most beautiful zanpakuto in the entire Soul Society, nothing can match it, they say that Toshiro's zanpakuto Hyorinmaru is the strongest ice type zanpakuto, but I believe that is now contested aswell." Byakuya said pridefully as he watched Hisana's expression of awe.

***Officer's row***

"Captain's ice is losing!?" Rangiku said in shock.

"It appears so." Kyoraku said with a smirk as he looked at Ukitake.

"I presume Hyorinmaru's title is no longer valid then, as the strongest ice type zanpakuto." Yamamoto said as he watched.

"That can be contested Yama-jii, a variety of factors are still play in." Kyoraku said.

"Still, if it weren't for these barriers we'd been frozen solid now." Nanao said stunned as she looked around.

***Battleground***

While the temperature was indeed low, it wasn't at absolute zero just yet, ice started to quickly form around, Toshiro tried to do whatever he could to avoid it but the grounds were just to close up, as a result Rukia's mist was everywhere and it was unavoidable, ice formed in Toshiro's body, forcing him to use his wings as a defence as he wrapped the wings around his body as a defence.

Eventually the temperature reached 0 kelvin, or -273,15 celsius, which was the absolute zero, and the wings shattered, as they could no longer sustain themselves as Rukia froze the wings even further then they were frozen already, and shattered them, making Toshiro fall to the ground, the only reason he wasn't frozen completely yet was because of his resilience to ice, but it only worked to a certain temperature.

Once Toshiro landed on the ground which was now frozen solid and was Rukia's soil, he immediately froze over, ending the battle with Toshiro's defeat, as Rukia attempted to increase the temperature slowly before the ice cracked, however even then she needed to be careful, otherwise it would be suicide, she was partially successful, the ice Toshiro was in cracked but didn't shatter, leaving Toshiro with major wounds but none of them life threatning.

The battle was over and Rukia had won, once the temperature had increased and Toshiro was partially out of harms way Kyoraku entered the field and announced Rukia's victory, as the crowd cheered for Rukia, though she wasn't without a scratch, as she managed to hurt herself a little bit by defreezing, furthermore Rukia's estimations that Toshiro were unable to wound her were also untrue.

As she defrose she noticed that Hyorinmaru had indeed managed to get her arm, she realized that it was because of the ice dragon she blew up with sokatsui, as the ice shards from it had indeed cut her up, as she was unaware of the injury until now. The medics ran out to the field to pick up Toshiro and check on Rukia's injuries. Kyoraku announced that there would be a break for now and the matches would resume in one hour.

***Quincy Stand***

"Any word on Kon yet?" Ichigo asked.

"No your majesty, we have been unable to find him." A guard officer said.

"Damn, where the hell is he?.." Ichigo asked.

"You worry to much, he's probably taking a walk or something." Bambietta said as he held Ichigo's hand.

"I hope so." Ichigo said, hoping that Kon didn't get into any trouble.

Rukon Arena Forest

Kon had fallen to the ground as he was quickly pulled away, he didn't know what it was but the fullbringers were unable to notice him because of it, when Kon looked at what had grabbed him his eyes widened as he looked straight into the eyes of a wolf, it was intimidating, Kon tried to scream out but the wolf used his paw to silence Kon quickly before he could say anything, which surprised Kon as when he looked at the wolf it didn't have any hostile intent towards him.

It was only then he recognized who it really was upon a closer look, furthermore the small reiatsu it suddenly unleashed before he hid it again showed who he was... It was Komamura. The once glorious captain of the 7th division, now a wolf unable to speak, he used his paws to silence Kon before he could scream in order to remain hidden.

"Quick, we have to warn Ichigo and Kyoraku about them!" Kon whispered as Komamura gave off a small nod as he grabbed Kon by the arm using his jaw and ran off towards the Quincy grounds.

Once they arrived at the Quincy grounds and was unnoticed by the fullbringers, they both noticed that Ichigo weren't there, or any of the higher ups of the Wandenreich, and Kyoraku were gone aswell, he tried to smell Ichigo, recognizing his scent, but it was all over the place, though he was surprised to find another scent he recognized, the scent of one he thought died.

***Flashback***

"Ohh Well, that wasn't bad! You felt something was wrong at the moment of impact and moved your head right? That's nice doggie, animal Instinct? Indeed, my explosions can't be blocked, I'm not firing reishi bombs! Anything I fire my reishi into... Becomes a bomb!" Bambietta said with a grin before she threw another set of orbs towards him.

***Flashback End***

"They must be in the arena, but I don't know where, and there are no guards here, where are they?.. Maybe they are inside, let's go!" Kon said to komamura but noticed he was in his own world.

"Komamura-san?" Kon asked as Komamura suddenly got kicked out of his memories from the war.

Komamura looked at Kon before Kon repeated himself, causing Komamura to nod as he ran towards the arena, Komamura did wonder how that girl survived, he was confident he killed her with her own orbs as she blew up, but evidently that wasn't the case at all, if anything he never took his time to check whether she was alive or not, as all he could focus on was the true enemy at hand, Yhwach.

Rukon Arena (Interior)

***Hallway***

Now that the break was there Ichigo felt the desire to take a walk, Bambietta, Kaien and Miyako followed Ichigo as they set out for the Kuchiki stand, though halfway they met with the Kuchiki family as they evidently had the same idea.

"Emperor Ichigo, I hope we do not disturb you now, we were on our way to see you to congratulate you on your victory against Zaraki Kenpachi, that was a glorious way to end the battle, and quite the strike too." Ginrei said as he looked at Ichigo.

"Thank you lord Ginrei, me and my little party here, we wanted to congratulate Rukia on her flawless victory." Ichigo said with a smile as he looked at Rukia.

"Way to go Rukia, you showed that little stump!" Kaien said as he gave Rukia a thumbs up.

"Congratulations Rukia." Miyako said as she noticed the blushing Rukia.

"No doubt, you've gotten way more powerful then what we heard back in the Wandenreich during the war." Bambietta said as she looked at her.

"That goes without saying! Though I am surprised by the power of your bankai, truly she's the most beautiful in all of Soul Society too." Ichigo said, not knowing how Bambietta heard it.

'Did you just call her beautiful!?...' Bambietta thought inwardly as she got jealous.

"Have you seen Kon?" Ichigo asked as he looked at Rukia, figuring she would know something.

"No I haven't why?" Rukia asked wondering if something has happened.

"He didn't come with us and I'm worried he might do something stupid." Ichigo responded with a deadpan.

'Worry about him as much as you like, when I'm through with you, you'll be worrying about yourself for once!' Bambietta thought inwardly in a seething rage of jealousy.

Kaien noticed Bambietta's anger and wondered what was wrong with her, but he dared not to ask, figuring it was a private matter, furthermore Ichigo was oblivious to the dark aura surrounding Bambietta, and that didn't make it any better.

"Ahh here you are." A voice said from another part of the hallway which belonged to Kyoraku.

"Head captain? Captain Ukitake?" Rukia said as she noticed Kyoraku and Ukitake.

"Congratulations on winning Rukia, you've gotten strong, and I'm retired remember." Ukitake said with his usual smile.

"That reminds me, how is your health? You've always had problems with your health, any symptoms?" Ichigo asked curiously, wondering if his lung disease were fixed.

"Now that you mention it, I haven't felt it at all really, I think it's gone as I am now capable of doing things I never were capable of before, and I don't get any coughing fits or feel the need to lie down anymore either." Ukitake said with a happy tone, causing Ichigo, Kyoraku and Rukia to be relieved.

"That is good news Ukitake-san, I'm happy that you are better, can the same be said for Hisana?" Ichigo asked as he looked at Byakuya's wife.

"Yes, I've been feeling much better thank you." Hisana said with her usual gentle tone.

"Emperor Ichigo, I have some news to share." Byakuya said with his usual stoic appearance.

"Yes?" Ichigo responded as he looked at Byakuya with curiosity.

"It has come to my and Hisana's attention that our marriage lasted until she died, which means we are no longer legally married, which is why we have made the decision to remarry, we will be making invitations shortly after we return back to the Seireitei, in which we will invite you and your family including your female companion here lady Bambietta, and more people included, we hope that you will be attending once the invitations have been sent out." Byakuya said as he looked at Ichigo with his usual stoic expression.

Ichigo was taken back by this, he didn't expect them to have to remarry, which caused him to think about his own parents marriage, and it didn't help Miyako and Kaien's minds either as this news were delievered to them, even Rukia was surprised as she hasn't heard anything about this at all.

"I see, I'd be happy to attend and honored that you would have me." Ichigo said as he looked at Byakuya with a smile.

"Information will be passed along in the invitation and the people invited, furthermore due to your status and importance, a special information on who your security chiefs should contact for your own bodyguards, as I believe your royal guard would hardly let you come alone." Byakuya said as he looked around at the guards stationed in the hallway, since it was attached to the Quincy stand the K.G had guards placed in the hallways aswell to ensure that no one snuck up on the Quincy stand.

"Well it is their job to be paranoid and assume the worst after all." Kyoraku said as he eyed some of the guards.

"It is." Ichigo said mildly amused.

"Well then, shall we-" Ginrei said before he was cut off by a screaming voice.

"IIIIICHIGOOOOOOOOOO!" A voice screamed in the hallway.

Ichigo recognized the voice as Kon's, and as usual he was making a ruckus, but Ichigo was surprised to see that a wolf was carrying him, not that he recognized the wolf as Komamura, atleast Ichigo now had tabs on Kon which made him feel a huge relief.

"Kon? Where have you been?.." Ichigo asked Impatiently as he noticed the wolf that stopped in front of him.

"Ichigo it's important, they are here!" Kon said almost in a rush as he looked at Ichigo.

"Who's here?" Ichigo asked.

"The fullbringers! They are in the forest watching us!" Kon said with a worried expression written all over his face.

"The fullbringers? Here now? They are earlier then expected." Ichigo said nonchalantly as he looked at the roof.

Although everyone frowned, Ichigo had already forseen their arrival, but that was something different, Kon was reporting fullbringers in the forest, though Ichigo could only guess that they were preparing to enter, Komamura on the other hand took his time to look at the female besides Ichigo and studied Bambietta closely, he was really surprised to see her alive and well like nothing had happened.

He didn't know how she survived, he was so sure she died, Komamura was a bit unsure what to do now, he believed that the girl was a time bomb, one that needed to be defused quickly, Komamura put Kon gently on the ground as he continued to study the girl, surprisingly he didn't feel anger or hatred, as that was all directed towards Yhwach.

Bambietta noticed how the wolf stared at her, not that she knew who the wolf really was, though she couldn't really care less about that now, though she did notice the curious look from it and wondered inwardly what it wanted, though for now that was the least of her concerns, as she looked forward to meeting the fullbringers.

"So should we abort the event?" Rukia asked as she looked at Kyoraku.

"I would advice against it." Ichigo said as he looked at Kyoraku himself, which caused Kyoraku to look at Ichigo wonderingly.

"On what grounds Ichigo-kun?" Kyoraku asked as he looked at Ichigo with an unusual serious expression which inwardly surprised Ichigo has he had never seen that look before.

"On the grounds that the entire leadership of the Soul Society will know their intentions if they appear, furthermore it will make them seem as the aggressors directly if they do something stupid which would give us grounds to claim self defence which would give us much more support on a war, as many other families in the Soul Society might see us as the aggressors if we act on them now, furthermore the event is televised to the Wandenreich and the people would surely support a war if they were to be seen as the aggressors everywhere." Ichigo said as he looked sternly at Kyoraku.

"That is a good point, but it is also important to remember that there are many nobles here that are unable to fight since they never recieved training." Kyoraku pointed out as he looked at Ichigo.

"And I presume that is where we come in Kyoraku, we hold them off and protect the nobles in the field while the lower ranks and security details escort the nobles out." Ichigo said as he looked sternly at Kyoraku, hoping he would see the point.

Kyoraku considered it for a brief while until he eventually had to agree, it was a good point that Ichigo brought up and they did have the power to hold off the fullbringers with Ichigo and his party's aid, and Ichigo did just say that he would go out to the field himself.

"Very well then, I see your point, we'll continue as normal." Kyoraku said with a hesitant tone as he tilted his straw hat.

"Guess I'll be showing off my own skills soon then." Kaien said with a smirk.

"Regardless, I'll be heading back to the stand for now, don't want to miss out on the fun." Ichigo said as he turned around.

"I assume that means you too Kon! We've been searching high and low for you." Bambietta said sternly to the little lion as he nodded and went with them.

"And where did you find that companion of yours?" Ichigo asked as he looked back at Kon and then the wolf, hoping that Kon didn't do anything stupid.

"That? That's Komamura-san!" Kon said, giving people quite the surprise as all eyes were on Komamura.

Bambietta was probably the most surprised, and she was visibly shocked as the memories of a heartless man entered her mind, showing that she was still traumatized by the entire event that Komamura put before her during that time, and here he was, now a wolf, she wondered if this was the side effect of what he did, was the ability on a timer? If so she could have waited and kept dodging.

But instead she foolishly tried to take him down, which caused her defeat in the first place, if only she was a bit more patient things might have turned out differently, as she now wondered what that ability he used truly does, if it does grant immortality to people of his kind, then it has to be at a great cost, was this it? The more she pondered it the more questions she had, and he seemed unable to answer in his current state.

"I see, I presumed that you were killed in action?" Kyoraku asked as he looked at Komamura with his one good eye, taking a close look at his form.

All Komamura could do was to shake his head, which confirmed Bambietta's suspicions, showing he was truly unable to speak, though he was able to shake and nod his head in understanding, but that was the extent of his communicative abilities to humans.

"I have a lot of questions for Komamura-san, though I do have an idea how he got here, if you'd follow me." Kyoraku said with a relieved smile as he thought about a certain new captain in the 7th division.

Ichigo gave a sign to Bambietta and they were on their way, with Kaien and Miyako remaining with Rukia.

***Quincy Stand***After The break***

Everyone had returned to their seats, Ichigo had taken the opportunity to eat proper food alongside everyone else in the stand, except the guards who had a duty change to relieve the guards that was there before the break so they could eat some food too, the matches was about to begin once more, and once more it was just low ranking officers, no fun to watch really.

Bambietta waited impatiently for the fullbringers arrived, they were in the middle of the 7th match after the break and now she just wanted to ask Ichigo if she could go outside and just hack and slash them to small tiny pieces, yet here they were waiting for them to show up, and the clock was ticking, Bambietta watched as the two grunts made a dash towards each other, hoping to end out victorious, that was until they were blown away.

The blast sent them flying in their own directions and smoke filled the air, Ichigo and Bambietta both realized that this was the moment they would show themselves for the first time officially, much to Bambietta's delight as she really wanted to carve them up to pieces by now, though for reasons she couldn't understand, Ichigo just sat there on his throne, not even moving an inch.

The crowd gave out sounds of surprise and shock at the event, Ichigo looked around and noticed the captains all standing, he heard Ulrik call it in through the radio, the K.G had already been briefed beforehand and was ready for their arrival, the guards already on the stand holding their hands on their sword hilts as they were ready to draw and fight at a moments notice.

Several other guards came into the stand and positioned themselves behind the railing on the stand, rifles already manifested as they held them in a port arms stance, ready to aim and fire at a seconds notice, and as soon as the smoke dropped, several men in red uniforms with gold trimming were noticed, showing that they were indeed high ranking officers, but the one Ichigo studied was the one who had the most distinctive uniform.

He was a person smaller then Ichigo but appeared to be in his late 60's, but Ichigo believed that he was way older then that, Ichigo noticed that the mans eyes were glued directly on him, looking at him with despise and hatred, giving Ichigo a bit of clue to whom he really was, causing Ichigo to wonder if he was just plain out stupid or over confident as the person who looked like the leader had just thrown himself to into a den of lions.

While Ichigo could say for sure that he forsaw the fullbringers arrival, he didn't see all of it since he didn't want to spoil the ending, Ichigo decided that once the decleration comes, he would end this war in an instant by cutting the head of the snake. The sounds around the stadium got silent as they appeared, all people could hear was the wind blowing over the top of the arena, other then that it was total silence.

Kyoraku quickly got out to the field, he noticed his two subordinates that had been blown towards the wall and knocked unconscious, the fullbringers looked at Kyoraku intensively as if they were going to attack, causing Ukitake and Yamamoto to enter the field quickly aswell.

"Ahh, head captain Kyoraku, I would say I'm surprised but that is regretfully not the case." The old man said as he looked at Kyoraku from the edge of his vision.

"Well that ruins the entire surprise element then doesn't it?" Kyoraku said with his usual smile.

"I suppose it does." The old man said.

"Isn't it a bit rude to enter without telling your name?" Ichigo asked from his stand as he rested his head in his hand like nothing was happening as he sat on his throne.

"Ahh yes, pardon my rudeness, I'm king Gabrin Lennareon, current monarch of the Dominion, and I take it that you are Ichigo Kurosaki? Emperor of the Wandenreich and king of the Quincy?" Gabrin asked as he looked sternly at Ichigo.

"That is correct!" Ichigo said as he stood up and flashed down to the field, with Bambietta, Uryu and Ulrik at his side.

Inoue came charging out from the infirmary with several guards, Isshin took chad and transported him down to the field aswell alongside him since chad showed intentions of joining in, refusing to leave Ichigo to fight alone.

"I believe you have something that belongs to me." Gabrin said as he frowned at Ichigo almost scoldingly, though Ichigo wasn't intimidated.

"Do I now? What ever would that be?" Ichigo asked as he kept his usual scowl at Gabrin.

"Don't play stupid boy, Where are my sons?" Gabrin asked sternly with narrowed eyes.

"Ahh, those two misfits? Sorry, they are kinda serving a prison sentence for spying and attacking a Wandenreich military installation, perhaps you should teach your kids to behave, it's so boring to send people to prison wouldn't you say?" Ichigo said with his usual scowl with a hint of disappointment.

Ichigo noticed that Gabrin studied him closely, his frown never disappearing after Ichigo said those words, but it was obvious that Ichigo had ticked him off greatly, if anything the Gabrin now seemed pissed at Ichigo if anything at all, but Ichigo still had problems deciphering the man, he didn't seem genuinly concerned for his sons, as if he was concerned about something else, what it was Ichigo didn't know, but he would find out.

"Tell me, what are your intentions here?" Ichigo asked sternly.

"My intentions? What do they have to do with anything?" Gabrin asked.

"You don't seem that concerned for your sons, any reason why?" Ichigo asked.

"That is none of your concern!" Gabrin replied honestly, causing Ichigo to sigh.

"Let me ask in a different manner then, what do you hope to achieve by coming here?" Yamamoto asked as he looked at Gabrin.

"What I hope to achieve by coming here? Well isn't it obvious? I'm just here to declare war on you, nothing else really." Gabrin replied calmly.

"I see." Yamamoto replied as he prepared to draw Ryujin-Jakka.

"I presume that settles it then." Ichigo replied with narrowed eyes at Gabrin.

"It does." Gabrin replied as he smirked.

***Ichigo***

Ichigo instantly manifested both Zangetsu blades and flashed at Gabrin, just as Yamamoto released Ryujin-jakka and Kyoraku and Ukitake drew their swords, Ichigo was surprised to see that Gabrin had already drawn out his own blade by the time Ichigo had reached him and parried his attack, but what had surprised Ichigo the most was that Ichigo, while still holding back, was intent on ending it with this one strike.

The ground shook and shattered, but Gabrin stood there and took the brunt of the attack like it was nothing, not even Kenpachi managed to do that, as Ichigo landed he made a Sankt bogen with six arrows, hell bent on impaling Gabrin, as Ichigo fired Gabrin suddenly vanished from Ichigo's sight and the arrows missed, Ichigo looked behind him and noticed that Gabrin had gotten some distance behind Ichigo.

'Bringer light huh? He's fast and resilient!' Ichigo thought inwardly as he looked sternly at Gabrin.

Ichigo looked around and noticed that Bambietta, Uryu, Ulrik, Yamamoto, Ukitake and Kyoraku had all engaged in their own combat with their own opponents, the nobles were evacuated with the exception of Rukia, Ginrei, Byakuya and Yoruichi who had engaged the other fullbring forces that had arrived, even the K.G were fighting their own battles as fullbringers entered from several of the many entrance points behind them.

Ichigo took his hand into his pocket and took out a small emergency radio that could be plugged into the ear that allowed Ichigo to hear and give out commands to the O.D.K in Silbern in cases of emergency, he activated it and the emergency transmitter went online which Ichigo heard in a beep in his ear which signaled to Ichigo that the O.D.K emergency line was online and Ichigo could hear radio chatter from the K.G in the arena in his ear alongside the command center in Silbern.

Looking back at his opponent Ichigo noticed his opponent had his blade aimed right at Ichigo and fired a beam ray of reishi directly towards Ichigo, Ichigo recognized it as the same ray that Ginjo used back then when they had their little fight, Ichigo fired off a getsuga tensho at the ray to destroy it.

***Bambietta***

Bambietta engaged one of the officers of the invading force, having already manifested her reishi blade she hurled herself towards her opponent, not even caring about her opponents name, she just attacked as she wanted to blow her to pieces, her opponent barely dodged the attack and tried to counter attack, with her own blade in the air he slashed it downwards, Bambietta moved away from the strike but managed to get hit in her arm.

She immediately tried to slash her own opponent who parried the attempt, though her opponent were shocked to see the sly smirk on Bambietta's face, not even realizing that she had focused her own reishi into her blade and now that touched the fullbringers blade, unaware that Bambietta had just made his own blade into a bomb which detonated almost instantly in the fullbringers face as the explosion sent the fullbringer flying.

Though it wasn't enough to put him down permanently, it left a massive scratch on him as he was visibly shocked at what had happened, he didn't seem to understand it at all.

"What did you just do?" He asked with a narrowed gaze.

"Nothing, I'm just too sexy for your blade to handle, guess it got a blowgasm." Bambietta said with a smirk as she readied herself for another assault.

"Well there is no denying that you are a beauty, shame you are fighting for him, wanna switch?" The fullbringer asked.

"Are you hitting on me? And no I'm already taken!" Bambietta replied with a smirk.

"Shame, guess I have to take you down then." The fullbringer replied as he recreated his blade and dashed at Bambietta.

Bambietta dashed towards the fullbringer with all her might, filling reishi into the blade once more, the fullbringer tried to behead her but she managed to evade the strike and counter attacked immediately, she slashed into the fullbringers right shoulder as blood sprayed out from his wound, unaware of what Bambietta had just done to him, before anything happened however Bambietta grabbed his throat and held him there as she refused to let go.

Suddenly his shoulder felt hot and a bright light engulfed the both of them as the fullbringers shoulder blew up in a massive explosion and smoke was all that could be seen.

***Uryu***

Uryu was more patient then Bambietta and Ichigo as he just kept staring at his opponent, no one moving an inch, though Uryu was curious, the fullbringer in front of him was masked, not showing anything, not even his own eyes, which Uryu found curious.

"That idiot, he probably doesn't even realize who he's fighting, guess we'll be down a soldier today." The masked fullbringer said as he looked at Bambietta and his comrade.

"Don't worry about it, you will be down more than that!" Uryu replied sternly.

The masked fullbringer just looked at Uryu, while his expression was unreadable due to his mask he seemed like he didn't care at all, which struck Uryu as a bit odd but then again the sternritters were once like that too during the reign of Yhwach, perhaps they too were divided like the sternritters once were, or was it something else? Uryu couldn't pinpoint it but something was a bit off.

Furthermore this masked guy in front of him seemed a bit familiar in a sense, though he couldn't pinpoint that either.

"May I ask your name?" Uryu asked as he drew his bow.

"My name? I don't have one of particular interest." The man replied cryptically.

"Don't have one? That's a pity, I'm Uryu Ishida." Uryu replied as he looked at the masked man, taking steady aim.

"I know all about who you are chancellor!" The man replied as he prepared to draw not a sword, but a staff of sorts, which also struck Uryu as odd.

"Good, that saves me the introduction of who is going to defeat you here today!" Uryu said as he fired an arrow directly at the man.

The man moved out of the way and the arrow missed, drawing his staff he fired beam rays out of it, showing that he, just like Uryu was a ranged combatant, Uryu flashed out of the path of the rays and fired a volley of 17 arrows in quick succession, three arrows hit successfully, two to the stomach and one in the shoulder, none of them fatal but enough to cripple the masked mans fighting ability.

Or so Uryu thought, the masked man rapidly fired hundreds of beams towards Uryu, which caused Uryu quite the shock, as he was unable to dodge all of them, not that he really needed to since he was still the A alongside Ichigo, or the Antithesis, and he could easily transfer his own wounds, though Uryu wanted to avoid using it to show off his abilities to the enemy.

As soon as the barrage ended, Uryu was moderately injured, furthermore having already placed the emergency radio in his ear beforehand and activated it at the moment the fullbringers showed their true intentions, he heard the radio chatter which sounded quite desperate, though Ulrik had managed to keep the situation contained, Uryu put his bow up in the air, and fired off a single arrow before activating licht regen.

hundreds of arrows came crashing down on his opponent, moderately injuring him aswell as he was unable to dodge them all, touching his belt beneath his chancellors cape, he pulled out something and dispelled his bow, using hirenkyaku he flashed behind his opponent, catching him by surprise as he held the seele schneider directly at the masked mans throat.

"Now, let's see who you really are!" Uryu said as he went to remove the mask.

But the masked man was faster, as he ripped himself from Uryu's grasp, cutting his own throat in the process of saving his mask, something that Uryu found quite hard to explain, was the mask his weakness? Uryu found it hard to explain, though he was cut from his thoughts as an explosion shook the arena, looking at it, it was definitively Bambietta who was reckless, though knowing the B it wasn't a problem for her to be engulfed by her own explosion anymore so he wasn't concerned.

***Ulrik***

In an effort to protect Ichigo's family, Ulrik ended up in his own battle, while his subordinates took care of the small fry in the hallway, Ulrik had to make the decision on whether it was wise to evacuate them or have the K.G bring the gate of the sun up to the stand, and he decided on the latter considering the reports he recieved from the radio, luckily a few soldats remained at the tent and acquired the gate of the sun easily, but now they had to fight their way through.

The amount of fullbringers that had infiltrated were enormous, and Ichigo's order to help protect the nobles spread the K.G out thin, though they were powerful and many enough to complete the job, but it was frusterating, furthermore the emergency response team from the K.G were already alerted and had arrived and were now fighting outside to clear the exits.

"Ulrik Ketzer, commander of the Keiserliche Garde and sternritter G of his majesty's army, at your service." Ulrik said to his opponent that was clearly an officer of asian descent.

"Yasu Heiru, commissar of his grace's army and commander of the king's guard." Yasu introduced himself as he looked at Ulrik.

"I see, and I presume that commissar is equilent to sternritter then in terms of rank?" Ulrik asked.

"Indeed." Yasu said as he hoisted his sword, showing clear intent on harming Ichigo's family.

"Well then I cannot allow you to harm them, in the name of his majesty I will put you down!" Ulrik said as he drew his blade and flashed at Yasu, hoping to end the battle quickly.

Moving in to bisect him horizontally from the hips, though Yasu parried the attack but was surprised at the force of the attack as it made him skid backwards, Ulrik, not allowing him a moment to regain himself saw a quick opening, all he needed to do was to point his blade at his stomach and pierce through him, quickly aiming the blade, he thrust as hard and fast as he could towards the stomach, and it hit it's mark as he the blade went through him.

Yasu was visibly shocked over the immediate attack right after another, and what came next didn't really help him much as a fizzle sound was heard, looking at the blade Ulrik made two heilig pfeils on his blade and fired immediately throwing Yasu off the stand and into the field with some injuries and blood loss, just as he regained himself, Ulrik had preemptively fired 11 heilig pfeils in an attempt to kill him immediately, hopefully before he could regain himself.

Ulrik's continous onslaught was brutal if anything, Yasu understood why this man was the leader of the Quincy royal guard in terms of fighting, not only was he strong and powerful, he was merciless, but atleast one to end things quickly, Ulrik noticed that Yasu had managed to dodge the arrows and and fired of a beam ray from the tip of his sword.

'Is this a basic fullbring ability?' Ulrik asked himself inwardly, noticing that it has been used by others aswell.

Realizing that if he moved away the royal family would be injured, so he stayed and took out his hand and took the brunt of the impact, causing the fullbringer to laugh.

"Haha, so much for taking me down! You got taken down yourse-" The fullbringer was cut off when he saw what he saw next.

The smoke had cleared and Ulrik stood there, only his glove was damaged, the stand wasn't even scratched from the attack, the fullbringer was shocked, as this was impossible, not even captain level combatants could take this attack and emerge almost unscathed, but yet Ulrik did it as it was the most normal thing in the world.

"What did you..." Yasu asked.

"You do not need to know!" Ulrik replied.

Ulrik flashed at Yasu once more hoping to cut his head clean off and end this fight already, what Yasu had not expected was that Ulrik's epithet was an ephitet that could be activated and deactivated, it didn't fire orbs or any of the sort, and it only consisted of passive abilities.

'The G, or the Guardian. It's probably one of the most powerful ephitets of the sternritters, though it only consist of passive abilities, it allows me to turn my skin into armor and increase my attack power and speed, and makes me resiliant to damage and allows me total reishi control.' Ulrik thought inwardly, happy that Ichigo granted him a ephitet that was befitting his duty as a royal guardsman, only Bambietta, Uryu and Ichigo had ephitets more powerful than him.

***Flashback***

The beam came hurdling towards Ulrik, Yuzu and Karin were terrified as they nearly screamed, even though it was unbecoming of Karin, Isshin, Masaki and Kaien made preperations to defend the two and the lower ranking K.G members moved in to protect the royal family with their bodies but to their surprise Ulrik caught the attack right in his hand and created a reishi shield to protect the stand using his total reishi dominance and merged it with his ephitet.

***Flashback End***

With the difference in speed Yasu was caught completely off guard as he was unable to dodge the attack as Ulrik stood right before him with his blade heading right towards his throat neck, in a desperate attempt to dodge it Yasu moved backwards as fast as he could, nearly using bringer light but Ulrik was faster.

*Chop, Splash*

Ulrik frowned, as it didn't go as planned, Yasu had moved out of the way but not far enough as his entire throat was sliced open, rendering him unable to fight as he fell towards the ground and choked on his own pool of blood, Ulrik had quickly ended the battle, though not as quick as he had hoped and he was forced to use his ephitet to end it quickly, as a prolonged battle didn't serve any meaning for his duties.

*Boooom*

Ulrik was surprised, he looked at the scene and noticed an explosion that was made from Bambietta, realizing she had quickly ended her fight aswell, he moved back to the stand to protect the royal family further.

***Ichigo***

Having successfully stopped Gabrin's attack, Ichigo looked at Gabrin with his usual scowl, though Gabrin looked elsewere, he frowned at the sight as the plan didn't go as he wanted it too.

"It appears that your second-in-command managed to defeat that idiot, and your royal guard commander defeated my own king's guard commander." Gabrin said annoyed.

"Well perhaps you should have thought twice about coming here then." Ichigo said as he looked around.

Noticing that Kyoraku and the other high ranking Shinigami were locked in their own fights, though most of them were just small fry, there were some shinigami that fought against officers.

"Thought twice about coming here? Don't be stupid boy!" Gabrin responded in a scolding manner.

Ichigo had just had enough of this man, and now he decided to up his game, seeing as the majority of the nobles had been evacuated and Ulrik taking care of his own family, Ichigo unleashed a power that he didn't even show Kenpachi, both the Zangetsu blades glowed blue as they ignited in blue reishi flames, which quickly spread to the ground and the flames were hot, extremly so seeing as the ground around them nearly melted.

Gabrin frowned, realizing that these were the same flames that Yhwach used to kill Yamamoto back then, the same flames that nearly scorched a blade that could go to 5 million degrees, these flames was flames that couldn't harm Ichigo since Ichigo's own reishi fueled them, and when it came to reiatsu, he had plenty to go around to make massive flames, even more so then Yhwach had, which was quite terrifying.

Realizing that Ichigo had decided to up his game dramatically, it was obvious that Gabrin regretted undermining Ichigo by calling him a child, Ichigo was hell bent on incinerating the man to dust, and this time Ichigo released more of his reiatsu, though no one felt it due to Ichigo being a transcended being, but to a person who watched, a red and black glow showed and it increased, showing a dense amount of reiatsu around Ichigo.

The more Ichigo released the hotter and more volatile the flames became, eventually everyone stopped their battles and watched as their mouths became dry, steam came up from the ground and a fog was appearing due to the sudden temperature change, even Yamamoto was stunned by this, as it was even more powerful then Zanka no Tachi, way more powerful.

Preparing himself for the onslaught of the emperor, Gabrin took his stance, hoping to end this quickly before it escalated out of his control, taking a hand in his pocket he pulled out a small coin like device, and threw it on the ground and several flashed appeared, as new soldiers from the dominion had made their entrance.

"Take him down!" Gabrin ordered as the soldiers nodded and they charged at Ichigo.

The charge didn't last long as Ichigo used the reishi flames to incinerate the soldiers with fair ease, leaving nothing more then ashes in his wake, not even their skeletons remained, Ichigo was anything then merciful towards his opponents, knowing that each soldier he kills, the more Quincy soldiers will live in case they actually get invaded or need to invade.

Ichigo slammed the longblade into the ground, and seconds after an earthquake happened, Gabrin quickly realized what was happening and used bringer light to escape just as a huge pillar of blue reishi flames exploded out of the ground with tremendous force, shattering the earth even more and the left side of the arena collapsed.

"That's dangerous, guess we will have to stop now, sorry for that, we will be taking our leave now." Gabrin said as he frowned, realizing that this fight would actually kill him.

"Leaving so soon?" Kyoraku asked from another part of the arena as he looked down.

"I have no choice, though it will not be without damage." Gabrin smirked.

Ichigo was hell bent on not letting him escape, drawing his blade back he prepared to launch a getsuga tensho to avoid his escape, his blade glowed and he was ready to fire, all he now needed to do was to swing it and Gabrin would-

*Splash!*

Ichigo was shocked as blood entered his vision, Gabrin stood there with his smirk, looking down Ichigo noticed a hole in his chest right were his heart was supposed to be. Bambietta, Ulrik, Chad and Uryu along with everyone else was shocked, except for the dominion forces, Ichigo had been injured severly, looking closely at it, it was a fairy, one that Ichigo recognized, even Uryu recognized it and was stunned.

Ichigo slowly but surely turned his head around and saw a certain auburn haired girl, with a frown on her face, looking at her hairpin Ichigo confirmed that she had fired Tsubaki at Ichigo in an attempt to kill him.

"Inoue?.." Ichigo asked stunned.

To be Continued

A/N: Bet you didn't see that ending coming huh?

Alright so now we are entering the war stages, I'll do my best with this arc as we are now officially in a new arc.