Disclaimer: First Chapter
Story Start!

"Sir, I have an important question for you, might you be willing to..."

"Lieutenant, it would be an honor if..."

"Heyo, want to go and get a drink tonight!?"

Rukia was speaking to herself in a mirror, sitting seiza, before she collapsed onto her side in annoyance as she tried to practice what she wanted to say. She rolled across the floor in agony as she couldn't quite figure out the way to say it. She looked at her arm badge sitting on the floor next to her.

3rd Seat.

It had been 15 years since the death of Kaien, and she had trained with her Shikai, and raised herself so that she took Kaien's old seat. She was ranked Number 3 in her Squad now, right behind Naruto and the Captain. It wasn't just like 15 years had passed, this was the 15th anniversery of hid death. Naruto had helped her to recover mentally from the stress that came with her ending her superior and friend's life. They lost several seated officers that day, and she hadn't thought she would be fit to take the position.

Everyone wanted to leave the 3rd Seat unfilled, but Naruto made the decision that there would be no lacking seat in their squad.

"How does somebody ask somebody else on a date..." Rukia sighed and sat up.

She wanted to ask her superior on a date, for multiple reasons, but the biggest of which was that Naruto always got sad on the anniversery days of any of their squad member deaths. There were 19 days a year when Naruto would go and visit the different graves of their fallen allies, and he would become sullen on those days. She wanted to cheer him up, ask him to do something with her, and repay him for the help that he had given her.

"Rukia!"

"Hello! Yes!" Rukia grabbed her badge and started to tie it to her arm when one of her squadmates entered her room, sweating from a long run.

"The Captain of the 11th Squad just challenged Naruto to a fight!"

"... Yes?" Rukia knew that Kenpachi Zaraki had challenged Naruto to many fights, and Naruto had never accepted a single fight to this day. Naruto never walked nearby Squad 11 because of the fact that it always ended up being him refusing a fight.

"Naruto accepted!"

"What!?" Rukia shot up to her feet and ran out of the room.

-With Naruto-

He was pissed.

"Man, if I knew that all I needed to do to get a fight out of you was kick over your friend's grave, I would have done it years ago... don't worry, I'll fix it after the fight." Kenpachi was a mountain of muscle, taller than Naruto by a long shot. The man leaked constant killing intent, joy, and his spiritual pressure was massive even for a Captain-class Shinigami.

Naruto was very pissed.

"You can't beat me Captain Zaraki... as powerful as you are, you actually won't be able to defeat me." Naruto had already unleashed his Shikai, and he was ready for the man. The small pink haired girl nearby watched with a smile on her face. Naruto sighed and deactivated his Shikai, bringing his sword back to it's sealed state.

Both vanished.

Both reappeared between each other with their swords clashing, and the air pressure from their blows knocked some of the nearby observers off their feet. The wall behind Naruto had a slash appear on it from Zenpachi's raw strength, while Naruto refused to allow his sword to make a shockwave.

Their physical strength was matched.

That spoke more about how unrealistically strong Zenpachi was than it said anything about Naruto.

'... He can actually match a Vasto Lorde in raw strength... I was Captain-class in strength before I ever became a Shinigami too.' Naruto knew how strong his species was, and Vasto Lorde were equal to Captains in strength... well until a Captain used their Bankai at least. He, Naruto, was a Vasto Lorde who had attained Shinigami powers through hard study and training. He was in a league above regular Vasto Lorde.

"Hahaha! This will be fun, lets say we make it more so?" Kenpachi removed his eyepatch.

Naruto raised his spirit pressure up in response as well, he raised his power to it's maximum and kept even with Kenpachi, who only laughed with glee.

"Get him Kenny!"

Both fighters pulled back their swords, and clashed again with an explosion of spirit energy exuding from their bodies.

"Apologize for disrespecting his grave."

"How can I apologize, it got you to finally fight me! Now, lets cut each other down!" Kenpachi pulled back his sword and swung it again. He recieved a slash across the chest, and he slashed his sword through Naruto's chest in return. Both of their blood stained the ground between them, and he laughed in glee at an opponent who hurt him.

They kept clashing blades.

Soon enough, the witnesses started to run away from their clash as the walls and buildings around them fell. They caused small scale destruction with their fight.

"Get him Lord Naruto!"

"Kill me if you can, THAT'S IT!" Zenpachi recieved a wound that would be fatal to most people as his stomach was slashed open, but his muscles kept his guts from spilling out.

"Apologize!"

Naruto recieved a slash as a sword tore through his shoulder.

"Never! Your reputation as the Captain-class Lieutentant was always something I wanted to test... why would such a strong guy fake being so weak... even when you're suppressing yourself, you can't hide how strong you are! I think you should apologize, you're a strong fighter who dishonored himself by pretending to be a weakling!"

"I'm not pretending!" Naruto argued as he blocked a blade aiming for his head.

His wounds healed.

His Regeneration kicked in, and the wounds that Kenpachi was inflicting on him were healing nearly as fast as the man was inflicting them.

"You're keeping up with me, and I'm strong!"

"I'm getting lucky!"

"See, you should apologize for lying so much, this isn't luck... you're a dangerous foe, a monster just like me... and I want to keep fighting until I see which one of us is the bigger monster-huh?" Zenpachi saw that his pink haired girl had been knocked far away by the shockwaves of their fight, or maybe she had left to get some distance on them.

He saw a golden glow.

Naruto reactivated his Shikai the second it was just the two of them.

"... My Shikai makes all wounds we inflict on each other become shared wounds... this fight is over now, you can't win anymore. Every attack you do to-" Naruto was stopped when Zenpachi slashed him across the chest in a surprising move of not giving a fuck about himself. The wound he inflicted on Naruto was mirrored on himself as both of their blood went flying again, and Naruto responded by instinct of inflicting the same wound on Kenpachi with his own sword.

Kenpachi slashed Naruto again, and inflicted the wound on both of them.

"Who cares if I get cut, I'm going to enjoy this fight!"

"You will die, you mad fool! Your enjoying this fight isn't worth your life!" Naruto turned off his Shikai and dodged a sword the second he realized that Kenpachi was just going to keep fighting until he died. Naruto didn't want the man dead, he just wanted an apology for the man kicking over the grave of his friend.

Kenpachi was covered in lethal wounds and still fighting, if Naruto had kept his Shikai activated the man would literally kill himself before he stopped fighting.

The sword went through Naruto's stomach.

...

Naruto's sword was also through Kenpachi's stomach, Naruto had reacted by complete instinct and pierced Kenpachi's body the second Kenpachi went for the heart with him. Instead of dealing any damage, all that happened was that Kenpachi's sword uselessly pierced through his Hollow hole hidden behind his bandages.

"I've pierced your liver, you will bleed out and die if you don't go and get..." Naruto jumped back and reactivated his Shikai. "YOU WILL DIE WITHOUT KILLING ME! I'm fully healed right now, and you're injured with almost 30 life threatening wounds! End this fight, get healed, and then fix Kaien's grave!" Naruto shouted in frustration.

"Why do you hate being strong!"

"I'm not strong!"

"YES!" Zenpachi rushed Naruto and they clashed blades. "YOU!" They slashed each other across the chests, and Zenpachi was wounded twice thanks to his Shikai being active. "ARE!"

If he ran, Kenpachi would just follow him.

People would get involved.

...

Naruto stabbed himself in the neck, and pierced both of the arteries in his neck then and there, and the same wound appeared on Kenpachi as well. Naruto sliced open his own throat, and Zenpachi's throat was slashed open at the same time. The difference was that Naruto healed moments later, and Kenpachi was left grabbing his throat with his free hand.

Grinning.

"... You have seconds to live... go get healed before you die." Naruto deactivated his Shikai once he sensed more people coming to view the fight again. Kenpachi on the verge of death had his spirit pressure weakened to the point that people felt it was safe to come and view them.

Kenpachi didn't put his sword away.

Instead he rushed towards Naruto to continue the fight.

He couldn't talk, but the man's grin told everything that needed to be said.

Kenpachi was dead by the time anyone arrived to see the fight again.

All they saw was Naruto standing over Kenpachi's corpse with his sword in hand.

"You battle fiend... this is why I've always avoided fighting you, why I never approached you..." Naruto sheathed his sword.

The battle was over.

Kenpachi was dead, having succumbed to his fatal wounds on the middle of the street.

"Naruto!"

That was what Rukia arrived on the scene to seeing.

"Rukia... you're badge is upside down. Sorry I was late... but it seems like I got a little caught up, lets go fix our friend's grave... let Squad 11 mourn the loss of their Captain." Naruto knew that he wasn't going to be punished for this, since he knew how the Captain status of Squad 11 was passed by murdering the previous one.

"Naruto... you killed him..."

"Captain Aizen was right, a fight between the Captain and Uzumaki ended with Captain Zaraki dead..." The 3rd seat of Squad 11 came forward and grabbed the side of his bald head. The man seemed shocked by it.

'Captain Aizen?' Naruto wondered.

"Well, he did try and tell Kenpachi to stop trying to fight Naruto... and now I see why."

"Captain... Captain Uzumaki you mean."

"... Shit." Naruto realized that the same reason why he wouldn't get punished for murdering Kenpachi was going to be the same reason why he wasn't going to be able to stay a Lieutenant anymore. Ukitake had been trying to get him promoted to Captain for some time now, but he had never accepted the promotion.

Now he had no choice.

"Yes! Lord Naruto is now a Captain, like he deserves to be!" Apacci was back as his guardian, since his mother's Three Loyal servants switched places every 5 years, and now it was Apachi's turn again.

'I should go thank Captain Aizen for trying to stop Kenpachi from fighting me... even if it was a useless thing, at least he tried to help me.' Naruto sighed and rubbed the top of Rukia's head. He had to report his killing of Kenpachi to the Captains, since that meant that he was going to have to take over the role until his death.

"Sir... you're a Captain now."

"I know... I guess Captain Ukitake is going to have to replace me... and not even that long after I managed to get him to make you 3rd Seat... hah..." Naruto wasn't happy about this.

Why did this have to happen?

Chapter End!
Many will be upset that Kenpachi is dead... well too bad, Naruto's Shikai is a HARD counter to Kenpachi when combined when his super regeneration. Either Kenpachi would die, or they would both die.
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