Chapter 7: More Soldiers

Ichigo was walking along the streets to get to the usual training spot. He along with Sosuke and Gin would go there and train whenever they had the time what with the way their schedules were. The usual place was in a forest near a waterfall that had a large spring to it. Ichigo would use a kido spell on the spring to heal anyone if they were injured. It helped boost Sosuke and Gin's morale along with making the already warm waters even more enjoyable.

As he walked he felt a familiar energy not so far away and in a tree. Ichigo stopped and sighed loudly.

"Soi-Fon." He started in his usual tone. "Stalking me better not be the reason you're not training now is it?"

Soi-Fon flashed in front of him and bowed in respect. "Forgive me captain, but I need to ask you a favor."

Ichigo arched an eyebrow but listened to her nonetheless.

"I've noticed that lieutenant Aizen and third seat Ichimaru have grown in strength since you became a captain. Once when I was spying on you before you caught me, I noticed that you were leading them somewhere outside of the Seireitei. After much thought, I think I know why they're so strong now, and so I ask of you captain Kaiyo." She raised her head to him and he could see the fire and determination in her eyes. "Will you please train me as well sir?"

Ichigo looked at her quizzically and started to rub his chin with his right hand. He had no intention of letting Soi-Fon join him at all since in his time she had openly stated that she would want nothing more than to kill him herself. She was a hard case that only lived to serve as Yoruichi's own little whipping girl in Ichigo's eyes, but something about her now was different. At first, Ichigo only told her to become stronger in order for him to gain her trust so he could take advantage of the confusion like Aizen had before. This was strange to him now because she wasn't all over Yoruichi anymore. Soi-Fon had now looked up to him for pushing her to become stronger, something Yoruichi hadn't done whatsoever. Maybe this could work out in his favor. The more help he has, the easier, or at least less stressful, it will be to destroy the Seireitei.

After a little pause and seeing how she bowed her head back down, Ichigo sighed. He placed his hand on top of her head and ruffled up her hair, surprising the girl as she looked up to him. She saw that he had a small smirk on his face and that made her wonder just what he could possibly be thinking.

"Alright then." Ichigo started in a slightly more upbeat tone. "I'll train you, but know this Soi-Fon, I'm not training you to be a better assassin or to be faster." He raised her up with just his palm on top of her head so she could meet him eye to eye. At first she was surprised, but soon she found herself comfortable enough to listen to the rest of what he had to say. "I'm training you to become a better warrior. I saw potential in you the first time we met, so the last thing you want to do is disappoint me." He dropped her and she landed on her feet.

"I understand captain." She said to him in her own slightly excited tone. "I won't disappoint you."

"That's what I like to hear." Ichigo said with a grin. "Let's go. Sosuke and Gin are most likely already getting ready. Come on Soi-Fon."

"Yes sir." Soi-Fon said as she followed the tall, orange haired captain to her own path to becoming stronger than Yoruichi.

Hueco Mundo, A Few Days Later

After Ichigo left a few days ago, the nine espada had stayed together out of a mixture of curiosity and slight fear. The curiosity from just what the captain meant by destroying the soul society and dealing with Barragan. The fear was from if he really meant to go through with his threat of killing them like how he did with Yammy.

They were all sitting around along one of the ruins of the once great Las Noches that Barragan hadn't taken over yet.

Aka could tell that everyone was very skeptical about how this one powerful captain knows him so well. The animosity was getting a little too much for the boy, so he decided to take a walk, or rather a slither, around the ruins. As he was moving along the place, he stopped when he saw the sleeping panther on top of some of the ruble. Aka stood there frozen for several seconds before bothering to move away and back to the group.

"What exactly do all of you think of this Ichigo guy anyway?" Starrk asked the group as he lounged in the sand.

"He's powerful. That's a fact." Szayel answered. "I don't really see any weaknesses in him at all."

"That kind of power could change the very law of the land in this desert we call a home." Nnoitra said. "I wanna fight him at some point."

"He'd easily destroy you." Halibel said to him in a slightly annoyed tone.

Nnoitra stood up from where he was and walked over to her. "What did you say, bitch?"

Halibel wasted no time in standing up and getting her weapon ready for a battle. "I said that he would easily destroy you. Do you have a hard time understanding basic words Nnoitra?"

"Okay that's enough." Ulquiorra stepped in the middle of the two. "We are not going to fight each other this close to Barragan's fortress."

"Its not like we couldn't take him on." Nnoitra said to the bat like vasto lorde. "As a matter of fact, I might as well take care of him myself."

Nnoitra waled away from the group and was about to leave to face Barragan, but he was stopped when he and everyone else heard a familiar voice coming from above.

"Well at least now I know who's the hot head of this group." Everyone froze at the voice and looked up to see the captain from before sitting on some tall pillar. "So you think you could take me on, Nnoitra?" Ichigo flashed in front of the tall espada and pointed his blade to his neck. Nnoitra froze. "Halibel is right you know. I would easily destroy you."

Ichigo grinned at Nnoitra's complicity when he finished his sentence. The espada was about to say something, but Ichigo cut his mask off before he could say a word. Nnoitra fell to the ground and started writhing in pain from whatever it was Ichigo had done to him. Everyone was disturbed that this captain had already taken out another one of them without any effort.

There was a bright flash of yellow energy that blinded everyone before it dissipated. When everyone could see again, they all saw a very tall man standing up from the ground. He was skinny and had short black hair along with a hole where his left eye should be. He looked at himself and noticed that he was naked.

"What the hell did you do to me, soul reaper!?" Nnoitra yelled out only to notice that his voice was different and he had some kind of staff with a crescent blade at the end of it.

There was a dead silence when he raised his staff and looked at it intently. There was a power behind the weapon that felt completely natural to him. It was hard to explain but it felt like he was more powerful than he was only a few seconds ago.

"Now then." Ichigo started as he looked to the others with a smirk. "Who's next?"

"What did you do to him?" Aka asked Ichigo in a slightly curious tone.

"I turned him into an arrancar." Ichigo said bluntly, surprising everyone there. "And I intend to do the same to each and every one of you. Now like I said before, who's next?"

Ulquiorra stepped up and stood in front of the captain. Ichigo remembered this form very well. It was the form Ulquiorra used to put a hole through Ichigo's chest. Pushing those memories aside, Ichigo slashed at his mask like he did with Nnoitra and Ulquiorra emitted the teal energy like his cero. After a few seconds, Ulquiorra stood there in his arrancar form same as Nnoitra was. He had his zanpakuto in his hand and was naked as well. He also had the number five in gothic style on his chest.

"What's the number for?" Ulquiorra asked in his new voice.

"It's your rank out of the nine of you for now." Ichigo started. He turned to Nnoitra who was looking for his number. "Yours is six by the way. The number's on your tongue." Nnoitra checked, and sure enough there it was. A black, gothic six.

Ichigo looked to the rest and was about to ask for the next one to show up when he felt a powerful pressure coming down on them.

"I don't know who you are soul reaper nor do I care." A powerful hollow like voice said from above them. "But whatever power you have will fit perfectly as a trophy to my power."

Just as he finished saying those words, the entire group was surrounded by Barragan's army. The many adjuchas looked at the two human looking hollows in confusion and murmurs started to flow out from the them. Throughout the commotion, Grimmjow had sneaked his way over and was on top of a pillar.

"That soul reaper, again?" He thought to himself.

Ichigo placed his blade on his shoulder and looked up to Barragan with powerful eyes of his own. Barragan was taken aback by this for a short while before regaining his composure in front of his army.

"So you're this Barragan I've heard so much about huh." Ichigo started. "I thought you'd be an arrancar or something more impressive than just another vasto lorde, but this could be fun nonetheless."

"Don't underestimate my power soul reaper." Barragan said in an irritated tone. "I have been king of Hueco Mundo for centuries. The only reason that any of these other vasto lorde even exist is because I allow it."

"You call yourself a king, yet you rule on a destroyed kingdom." Ichigo started, catching Barragan and everyone else off guard. "If you really were a king, then you would have at least rebuilt this once great Hollow Night Palace and would rebuild the hollows by now. All I see is a mass of hollows following you out of fear or blind loyalty into an endless loop of nothingness. What kind of a king does that?" His words caused more murmurs throughout the army surrounding him.

Barragan was seething at the captains words and brought out his Axe. "Soul reaper. I will rot your entire body from the inside out!" He raised his weapon above his head and his army scattered away. Grimmjow had also gotten out of the way, same with the espada's. Ichigo stood there alone in the area as everyone had their eyes on Barragan. His Axe glowed with purple and black mist as the center point started to glow red. He swung downward and the mist flew over to Ichigo, engulfing him in its decaying energy. The nine along with Grimmjow watched as the captain could no longer be seen and the surrounding area was rotting away.

"That." Barragan bellowed. "Is why I am the king of Hueco Mundo! None of you forget that! My rule is the law of the land!"

"And what a flawed land it is!"Ichigo yelled out from inside the smoke. Barragan looked down in shock as the mist started to swirl around in a dome of its energy. Everyone stood back some more as the mist started to seep around the area.

Barragan couldn't believe what he was seeing, but that disbelieve turned to shock when he could see the eyes of the captain through the mist. Those once brown eyes now were black with purple irises to them and filled with killing intent.

The blade that the soul reaper had was raised into the air above the swirling dome of mist. The blade was perfectly fine and wasn't rotting at all. This surprised everyone there and they had no idea what was going to happen now.

"Carve their hearts out, Zangetsu!"

The blade disappeared and the mist stopped swirling and started to fade away. When it did, Ichigo stood up with both his blades in his hands. The mist dissipated and Ichigo pointed his left blade to Barragan.

"I'm going to finish you, Barragan." He started with the same look on his face. "And when I'm done with you, the hollows here will learn that a leader who controls them through fear can always be beaten by someone who rules through respect."

Barragan gritted his teeth and raised his Axe in the air again, but before he could even fully raise it, his arm was now gone. His Axe fell to the ground and everyone gasped at how the captain stood in front of Barragan with both blades impaling the now former king of Hueco Mundo.

"W-Who are you?" Barragan asked as he felt the blades preparing to release some kind of energy.

Ichigo looked at Barragan and then to everyone else that watched dumbstruck at what he had just done.

"My name is Captain Ichigo Kenpachi Kaiyo!" He yelled out so everyone could hear him. "And this, is the last time you'll see this hollow as your king!"

With those words, Ichigo looked back to Barragan and whispered. "Getsuga Tenshou."

A massive black and red energy came out of the blades and imploded inside of Barragan. He faded away with everything but his crown. Ichigo caught the crown with his blade and looked at it intently before letting it drop and shatter on the ground.

"Now that he's out of the way." Ichigo started as he looked around to see everyones shocked and surprised expressions. "Right now I have nine espada's. I need one more to truly bring the full might of their power down on the soul society. When I return, this once great palace will be back to its former glory. And while I'm gone." Ichigo flashed over and slashed at the remaining seven's masks. They all glowed their respective colors, Aka's being red obviously, and were now arrancar.

Aka looked to be a ten year old boy with short red hair and a sword inside a red scabbard. He looked to himself and saw the black and gothic number on his right side. His number, was two.

The rest of the numbers went as follows:

Starrk 1,

Aka 2,

Neliel 3,

Halibel 4,

Ulquiorra 5,

Nnoitra 6,

Zommari 8,

Szayel 9,

and Aaroniero 10.

"These nine will be in charge of each and every single one of you until I come back in a few days." Ichigo said as he brought his blades together to form its single blade. He sheathed it and snapped his fingers to open a garganta. He stepped through it and was now back in his room. The barrier was around his room and Sosuke was sitting on the chair. He stood up in surprise when Ichigo stepped out of a garganta.

"Ichigo?" He asked in surprise.

Ichigo looked to him and smirked. He walked over and held out his hand to the lieutenant. Sosuke held out his hand and Ichigo placed a small ball of compressed purple and black mist into his hand.

"What is this?" Sosuke asked him in confusion.

"Something to truly test your scientific mind Sosuke." Ichigo started as he placed a hand on Sosuke's shoulder. "I need you to make an arrancar out of this energy, and make sure that the arrancar is a child."

"Why a child Ichigo?"

"Children are easier to control when they're afraid Sosuke." Ichigo said as he patted Sosuke's shoulder. "Unless they're strong enough to listen to you with an open mind."

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