Ever since the defeat of Aizen, Captian meetings have been optional. This was quite popular, so no one ever really went to one.

Zaraki Kenpachi, for one, never went anymore. Instead, he sparred with the stronger seated shinigami in the Goeti Gaurd Force, usually Yachiru, so she could help recieve her bankai.

Jushiro Ukitake, with his love for children, usually watched over the stray ones in the Rukongai or helped the year ones that are training to become a full-fledged shinigami in the school.

Toshiro Hitsugaya, surpisingly, skipped Meetings also. No one knew where he went, as he claimed he had 'missions to attand to'. But some people knew he wanted to explore this place back at The World of The Living called 'Antartica'.

There are many more captians and reasons why they never to rarely attended meetings, but that would take up all the time.

As Yamamoto expected, only 1 captian, Byakuya Kuchiki, attended. That was expected.

After Byakuya came, they waited a full 5 minutes for the others. No one else came through the door. Also, expected.

"Sir?" Byakuya questioned, "What is the porpouse of this 'meeting'?"

Yamamoto stifiled a sigh. It was obvious no one else was coming. Even if they were at the far end of the Rukongai, it would only take less than a minute if using shunpo.

"Nothing, you are excused"

Byakuya said nothing as he walked out the wooden doors.

Well.

That was an epic failure.

Oh well, the other captians were sure to have sensed Ichigo's reiatsu by now.

So all he could do now was to sit back, relax, and enjoy the show.

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Ichigo's feet shuffled along the forest floor. He was thinking of something to do, something to entertain him.

Danggit.

He was like Shirosaki, his hollow now. Nothing entertained him for long. He was half tempted to run throughout the Rukongai, screaming at the top of his lungs like a siren and scare the crap outta everyone. But that would only cause a rukus, then that would attract shinigami, then captians, and that would surley lead to disaster.

Maybe he could go try to open a Garganta and visit the remaining Espadas that survived the Winter War.

You see, even though Aizen was defeated, sentaced to however many thousand years, Some Espada still remained.

Grimmjow, for example, was still alive. He was never killed by Ichigo or Nnoritora, he was simply K.O'd because of blood loss. Any yes, espada can faint of blood loss. He dragged himself inside the white-washed palace and recovered there.

Same with Ulquiorra. He used his high-speed regeneration to heal his body. He found some other remaining espada, such as Halibel and Stark with Lilinette. That was all who were remaining. They soon followed Ichigo, as they saw Ichigo as the 'King' of Hueco Mundo. The Soul Society didn't know of this, and still don't. In fact, the only people who know about this is Ichigo(with Shirosaki, of course) and the remaining espada.

So they now resided in Hueco Mundo.

To bad Ichigo couldn't open a garganta.

But wait a second.

he shifted through his poctets, finding a little black square box.

This was the Hogyoku.

Yes, the Hogyoku. The thing that caused the war, the object that infused itself with Aizen.

They were able to make Aizen give it up and gave it Urahara for protection. Then Urahara gave it to Ichigo as a 'Souvenier' or 'Reward' from saving the town, and the entire world.

You see, the Hogyoku's only goal in existance is to help it's weilder's wishes. It helped Aizen achieve Immortality, so surley it could help open a Garganta, right?

One thing. Ichigo had no idea how to use it. He held it in the air above hi head. I mean, that's what they did in thise strange American movies, right?

It did nothing.

Ichigo tried to frown, but it's quite challanging when you're fully hollowfied.

He shaked it. Nothing.

Harder. Still nothing.

His black eyes was a lot harder than he thought. How did Aizen ever manage to use this thing? Ichigo knew for a fact he wasn't going to fuse it with his body, because he really wasn't in to mood to become like Aizen.

'C'mon, Hogyoku, open a garganta. If you made Aizen immortal, this would be no sweat, right?' He thought fiercly for a few minutes. Without warning, shouting voices came from less than a quarter mile away.

'Crap.' He thought, stressed 'WorkworkworkworkWORK!'

He really didn't have time for this. He really had no desire of getting caught by shinigami. Upon that, he threw the Hogyoku to the ground.

Ironically, with a flash, a Garganta opened.

Ichigo glared daggers into the innocent black cube before grabbing it in his white clawed hands and stepped into the garganta.

Shortly after the Garganta close, the bushes parted to reveal a tall, thick-built man. He had spiky black hair and wore a torn Captian's cloack. A young girl with bright cotton-candy pink hair clung to his shoulder.

"Hm. Strange." The man said, "I knew I felt someone's reiatsu here. Someone strong who would put up a good fight."

"Kenny! What's that?" The young girl said to 'Kenny', pointing at something that looked similar to paper being pulled back, revealing a twisting black and dark purple.

"It's a Garganta." Someone said behind them. It was all the captians, save for Yamamoto.

Toshiro stepped out of the group. "It's what arrancars and espada use when traveling to the Soul Society or the World of the Living. Remeber, you saw Aizen and his army use it in Karakura Town during the Winter War."

Everyone winced. The Winter War was now a... sensitive subject now. No one liked to talk about it, especially Toshiro, as it reminded him of Hinamori and how he was tricked into 'killing' her.

Kenny, known as Zaraki Kenpachi, only grinned. "Well than, let's go! Who knows, there might be a strong arrancar or espada on the other side! Besides, you guys know it takes alot of energy to actually open one!"

He leapt to the twisted flap and begun to pull on it, a known strategy known by the captains. You see, gargantas had a habit of not fully closing, leaving a flap that you could pull on it to reopen it. It saved alot of time and enery.

Within two minutes, a door-sized gap was revealed.

"Wait! Are you sure we sould go in? Souldn't we tell the Head Captian first?" Someone shouted. It was Kensei, a visored like Ichigo and Shinji. After the war, some of them were able to come back to the Soul Society and replace the lost captians, Ichimaru Gin, Souske Aizen, and Kaname Tosen. Kensei and Shinji replaced two of them, so one spot was left without a captian.

"Of course! C'mon, what does it hurt? Waiiitttt" Kenpachi drawed out the 'wait' before continuing,"Are you scared? I mean, it's the Land of the Hollows. And you, beaing a visard,' Kensei winced,"would be taken over by your Hollow! That's why! You're too soft, Kensei! And I thought you had total control over it!' at this point Kensei was fuming 'I mean, I wouldn't like a hollow taking over me at all! They' have all the fun fighting and killing enimies!" Kensei looked like he wanted to kill Kenpachi now.

"I'M NOT SCARED! I'M ACTUALLY USING MY BRAIN UNLIKE YOU! AND I DO HAVE COMPLETE CONTROL OVER MY HOLLOW!" Kensei panted, catching his breath from the rant. After a few seconds, he stood straight up, his head held high. He marched over to the garganta.

"C'mon.', he growled, "We're going to Hueco Mundo."

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A/N: Hello, and thanks for reading this, all of my veiwers! I'mma try to publish at least one chapter every week, cause it's kinda the only time I have for typing withut anyone bothering me.

So yeah, the captians are revealed! Most of the facts about the vizards returning to the soul society are actually true. Hope I didn't spoil it for anyone! This took over a hour to write, so I hope all of you guys liked it!

I did, however make up the part about Ulquiorra, Stark, and Halibel being alive. Not the same with Grimmjow, though. There have been alot of rumors Grimmjow is coming back in the series. I do hope so, that'll be pretty fun!

I admit, I didn't have any plans for Yamamoto's prank, so I setteled for something I hope is better.

Truthfully, i think this is possibly the longest chapter I've written for any fanfic. At one point I was worried ther was a word limit. Hehe.

SO PLEASE RATE AND REVIEW! COMMENTS MAKE MY TWISTED MIND WORK BETTER!