RECAP Ichigo asked " can I go down to join in the tournament for the selecting of the captains" the soul king pondered the idea of Ichigo joining the tournament and then the soul king replied with a"yes, but you might wanna take something to hide your identity to make it a secret because you would probably be asked a ton of questions." Quickly Ichigo found a cloak to hide his identity and headed off towards soul society.
END RECAP
FLASHBACK
SOUL SOCIETY
After the battle with Aizen, the Seireitei had started to rebuild itself. The Seireitei sent out search party's to find Ichigo kurosaki after his mysterious disappearance after defeating Aizen but to no avail, a lot of people were saddened by not finding him
LIVING WORLD
After Ichigo's disappearance, his friends were hard to change to a life without there favorite friend. Uryu ishida, had taken responsibility of killing the hollows in Karakura town, because the local soul reaper weren't that good at exterminating the hollows.
END FLASHBACK
Ichigo had landed somewhere in the soul society after walking down all those stairs that seemed to take forever, he started to walk around trying to figure were to go, Ichigo saw a man walking around, Ichigo went up to him, " um, excuse me but do you know the way to the tournament?" Ichigo questioned, " oh yeah its over to the right side of the Seireitei. " the man replied
After some time of Ichigo wandering around to get to the tournament sign ups, he finally go there. The woman signing people up asked " are you signing up for the tournament?", " yeah, also how does this tournament work?" Ichigo curiously asked, " well it works like this there are 6 preliminary matches with a lot of people in each match , and whomever beats all the people in the match moves onto the semifinals and then if they go onto the final, its a free for all, and the last 3 people fight and whomever wins that match selects the captain position that they want to be in, also the captains select what squad the two other people goto." The woman replied
"Thank you" Ichigo stated, as Ichigo was about to walk away "oh wait ! I forgot to tell you that the preliminary match you are in is the seventh". the woman excitedly said. Ichigo then looked back at the woman and said " stupid me, how i could've forgotten that I didn't even know what preliminary match I was going to be in." , " wow Ichigo I didn't know you can be that dumb" ichigo's inner hollow calmly said.
"I am not dumb " Ichigo replied in his mind with a bit of annoyance in his tone.
" yes you are" his pale inner hollow stated seriously.
" no I'm not! " Ichigo replied furiously. " Whatever this conversation isn't going anywhere so I'm just gonna go away" replied his hollow going back into ichigo's subconscious. " glad that's over " Ichigo thought to himself, after that a loud speaker went on in a monotone voice saying " anyone who is participating in the seventh preliminary match goto the arena now." Ichigo quickly walked to the arena and saw many people, " there are many people here, it seems that they are letting the civilians enter the tournament as well soul reaper, but it doesn't look like the civilians will probably be getting to the semifinals because they don't have a zanpakuto and the amount of soul reapers being in this tournament." Ichigo thought to himself
" the match will begin in 5... 4 ... 3 ... 2... 1... Start !" stated the monotone loudspeaker. Off the bat the people of Rukongai were battling each other and soul reapers too. " considering the amount of soul reapers here and the one's watching this match, I think its safe to assume that some of our soul reaper friends our watching this battle so we should probably keep the cloak on" His inner hollow stated
" good idea " Ichigo replied to his inner hollow. Ichigo then took out his smaller zanpakuto of the two and took out a group of people that surrounded him. Back in the stands Rukia and Renji both saw a person who wore a cloak take out a large group of people by himself while using a weird fighting style they never seen " hmm, the guy in the cloak that took a lot of people out, I think he's holding back he actually might be a challenge if he is holding back a lot" renji said to the friend sitting beside him. Rukia then looked to renji and said " well he isn't a soul reaper so he's already at a disadvantage " rukia stated to renji.
Sometime later in the seventh preliminary battle, it was winding down to around 20 people, " only 5 minutes remaining " said the loudspeaker. " I think I should end this don't you agree hollow " Ichigo said subconsciously to his inner hollow. " sure" his inner hollow replied in a not caring tone. Ichigo quickly used a very slow flash step to get behind each one of the fighters and quickly knock them out. " looks like that guy can use the flash step, but not a very fast one ." renji said to rukia, " but how does he know the flash step only soul reapers can use the flash step, so does this mean he is a soul reaper if so then why is he wearing that cloak ? " Rukia curiously asked Renji, " honestly I don't know" Renji blatantly stated.
" The winner of this match please report to the concession stand. " stated the always monotone loudspeaker " I guess that's my call to go" Ichigo thought blatantly . Ichigo quickly went to the stand and he received a number, the person at the stand explained that is the number they will call when its their time to fight against an another opponent, it was the middle of a bright sunny day in the soul society and Ichigo realized " what am I going to do today" he thought to himself. " I guess I'll go watch the other remaining preliminary matches to see who I'm up against " Ichigo stated to himself . Ichigo slowly walked back into the stands to watch the matches, at the end of the day the people that are participating in the semifinals are Rukia, Renji, Izuru, Shūhei, Ichigo, and finally Ōmaeda, when Ichigo was walking out of the stands he realized he didn't have anywhere to go, so Ichigo walked around until he found a good sleeping spot, because he didn't have any money to stay at a place and quickly dozed off into sleep.
- so how was that, the reason why I was not uploading was because I got a terrible disease called laziness