It was a bright and peaceful day in the Seiretei as a special event was being held in the inner ring of the large city. It was a tournament of combat skill between every soul reaper in the 13 Court Guard Squads. Even Ichigo was allowed to participate in this event. Several fight occurred all at once and head Captain Yamamoto sat in a chair, overlooking the fights as they went on, one which he was intrigued by was between Lieutenant Renji Abarai and a member of the second court guard squad, Hikari Okami. Soi-Fon Stood on the side lines with her arms crossed and smirk on her face as Renji seemed to be having extreme difficulty fighting Hikari who still had his sword in its sealed form. Hikari didn't even have scratches on him while Renji was covered in cuts and gashes, even though he was using his shikai. Ichigo and Rukia walked over beside Soi-Fon and watched the fight in amazement at how little Hikari was trying. The both of them stared in wonder at the soul reaper who stood before them. He was 6 feet in height and had shaggy blonde hair which was spiked up in several places. His eyes were a deep blue and his skin was a fair tone. He wore the traditional uniform of a soul reaper except his sleeves were torn up to the elbow. His Zanpakuto had a black wrapping around the handle and a square shaped guard with one hole on the left and right side of the guard, each the size of a large bead. The blade an inch shorter than the standard Zanpakuto. The base of the sword was solid black and had no distince characteristics. The sheathe for the blade was solid black with black cloth wrappings around the the top 1/3 of it.
"Who is that guy?" Ichigo asked as he leaned on Zangetsu with his right arm as the large clever like blade stuck into the ground.
"That is Hikari Okami, 4th seat of squad 2, he is lazy, unmotivated, unambitious and could easily fill a captain's role if he wanted but the prior mentioned traits are what is stopping him" Soi-Fon said sternly as Renji stood to his feet and held his sword in a sideways position.
"Bankai" Renji said as his sword began to envelope him and glow bright red, turning into its large snake like form. "Hihio Zabimaru" Renji smiled as he swung the base of the sword, sending the head flying and hissing at Hikari who just took his sword in both hands causing a large blast of spiritual energy to shatter the ground below him.
"Put up a barrier around the fight, we don't want to destroy the Seiretei!" Soi-Fon ordered causing four soul reapers to put up a large purple, see through barrier around the several acres wide battle field. At the sight of this, all the other onlookers changed their view to the sealed battle field to see Renji had activated his Bankai. At the sight of this, Byakuya walked over and stared as his lieutenant and a member of another squad began to fight seriously now.
"What is that idiot thinking? Using his Bankai so carelessly" Byakuya said irritated at Soi-Fon began to laugh.
"He is going to need it Byakuya, after all this is Hikari he is fighting" she laughed as Rukia began to tremble from the spiritual energy emitting from him.
"Scream, Iroaseta Sora " Hikari said as the blade of his sword began to change. The blade curved up like an Egyptian hook sword and the blade of the sword was on the inside of the hook. Hikari slammed the blunt side of the sword on the snake head of Hihio Zabimaru causing the bones in its body to come apart for it to fall into pieces. "Is that all your Bankai is capable of Renji?" Hikari laughed as he walked closer to Renji, only to feel a burning sensation from behind him. He turned to see that Zabimaru had repaired itself and was charging up a large ball of energy in its mouth. "What!"
"Hikotsu Taiho!" Renji said as Zabimaru fired its cannon, only to miss Hikari by mere inches and just grazing the leg of his uniform. The blast carried out until it hit Renji who didn't expect Hikari to dodge it so easily, knocking him unconscious with his own attack.
"Match over! Victory goes to Hikari Okami!" an announcer said as Hikari sealed his Zanpakuto and walked out of the arena and over to his captain.
"Hopefully next round you will get someone who is more of a challenge, seeing as how you didn't get to even use your Zanpakuto's special power in its shikai form" Soi-Fon chuckled as Hikari looked at Ichigo to see the X's on his body and outfit. This got his attention because he had seen Ichigo before, almost 2 years ago but he paid him no mind, but now he seemed different, stronger, and maybe a bit taller?
"Maybe I will get to fight Ichigo" he smiled as he walked over to the score boards to see who he was fighting next. "Well would you look at that" he chuckled as they moved Ichigo's name beside his.
"Ichigo, I think you might be in trouble here" Renji said as he limped over to him and Rukia with bandages covering his wounds.
"Renji, you sure got your ass kicked out there" Rukia teased him.
"WELL YOU LOST THE SECOND MATCH HALF PINT!" he yelled at her causing her to smack him on one of his bandages.
"Calm down you two" Ichigo laughed.
"Next match begins in 1 minute, the fighters are Ichigo Kurosaki and Hikari Okami!" an announcers voice said as Ichigo walked to one end of field and Hikari to the other.
"So, Ichigo is going up against this guy huh?" Kenpachi said smiling from the side lines. "I guess the winner will prove to be the stronger of the two and also my next opponent" he smiled with his pink haired lieutenant on his back cheering. A barrier was put up around the two and Hikari released his shikai first think this match.
"I have heard that you were the one who beat Aizen by himself, so I think I will need to start off strong for this fight" he chuckled as his sheer spiritual pressure shattered the ground below him "Leap from the shadows, Iroaseta Sora" he said releasing his curved Zanpakuto . The bell was rung and the two charged at each other and began to clash blades. Ichigo jumped back and swung his sword, sending a large blue getsuga tenshou at Hikari who knocked it to the side with a swing of his sword. "My turn" he laughed. He swung his sword at Ichigo, who tried to black it, only to have the blade pass through his own and cut him across the shoulder.
"What the hell?" Ichigo said as he held onto his shoulder. 'Did I miss? No, his sword made contact with mine but how did he manage to hit me?' He thought to himself as Hikari chuckled a bit.
"My Zanpakuto has the ability to phase though anything and deal damage to my desired target, that is its power in its shikai state" he said causing Ichigo to hold out his sword.
"Then I guess I will have to step it up then" he said smiling. "Bankai!" Ichigo said as black spiritual energy shot from him and his sword changed into its smaller Bankai form as well as his clothes.
"No point in not giving these people a show" Hikari said holding his sword sideways in his right hand.
"He isn't going to do what I think he is..." Soi-Fon said shaking as the barrier around the two of them began to crack and Hikari's sword began to glow.
"Bankai" he said calmly as he was surrounded by black and green spiritual energy which changed his clothing into a black cloak with a hood and his sword into a long scythe. The staff part of the scythe was made of pale white bone and the blade was a bright silver color with a skull on the opposite side of the staff facing away from the blade. "Kuroi Sora Iroaseta" he smiled as the barrier around the two of them shattered like glass.
Meanwhile in the lowest point in the soul society Aizen was sitting in his prison cell, bound to his chair by thousands of bandages. "So it finally happened" he chuckled as he opened his visible eye really wide, sending out a wave of Spiritual energy so faint that it wouldn't be easily detected. "Hikari, show them the true power of a Hollow Hybrid" he smiled under his bandages as the wave reached Hikari, causing him to hold his face in pain as white substance began to cover his face and hands, giving him the appearance of a skeletal hollow with black etching on his mask which had two large horns on the front of it.
"Shit, he is hollowfying!" Ichigo said causing Shinji to jump in front of him, facing Hikari.
"Ichigo, get everyone out of here now" he said drawing his sword which caused all of the other visored soul reapers flash stepped into the scene and all put on their masks.
"So, you had another one of us, huh Aizen?" Shinji said under his hollow mask. Hikari opened his mouth and large black cero began to form in front of him which he proceeded to fire at the group, scattering them and sending the other soul reapers running except for the captains who all stood their ground.