Chapter 46

"So... our plan is to hope that either Turnip Head's or Carrot Top's newly learned half assed Bankais will be enough to defeat Kuchiki Byakuya, who has decades of experience with his own Bankai?"

""My Bankai won't be half assed!"" The vegetable duo cried out while Yoruichi, with a brand new bottle of sake in her hand, shrugged with a smile.

"Not like we have many other options, considering that we'll need you to deal with the other captains if they show up as I'll be dealing with Soi Fon and these three will go look for Zaraki." She said as she gestured at Tatsuki, who was still glaring at her, and Inoue and Ishida, who were still red faced.

"Huh, so the plan is for whoever is fighting Kuchiki to stall him long enough for that maniac to arrive. Will he really help us though?"

"He gets to fight Byakuya if he does and we'll also dangle a rematch with Ichigo, who will have a Bankai, so he definitely will."

"Wait, I don't remember dangling me as bait being a part of that plan!" Ichigo cried out, looking very distressed at the thought of going against Zaraki Kenpachi once more.

"Stop whining and just get ready to throw down with the bastard, it will put some hair on your chest." Yoruichi said with a snort as she drained her bottle and then looked at the now empty bottle like it had insulted ten generations of her family. "Fuck the human world for having great alcohol like whiskey and rum and vodka, they make this shit feel weak." She said with a huff and reached over to the secret crate in order to pull out another bottle.

"Don't you think you drank enough?" Renji asked as he gazed at the small pile of empty bottles that already numbered over a dozen with a mix of trepidation and respect.

"Not even close. I once swore that when Tsunayashiro Tokinada died, I would drink enough to make Kyoraku look like the model picture of sobriety. I need at least twenty more bottles for that."

"Just what kind of asshole did you kill to get a reaction like this?" Tatsuki asked as she looked at me.

"Who knows, maybe he was actually a very nice douche who cheated on Yoruichi." I said with my eyes closed and tried to ignore the bile rising due to using the term 'nice' in order to describe that lime looking bitch. Right before leaning forward in order to dodge the empty bottles that Yoruichi threw at me.

"Gah!" Causing them to hit Ishida instead.

"Don't even joke about that. I would rather go to Kisuke and ask for a method to become a man rather than get anywhere near that psycho like that." She snarled before pushing her breasts up with and looked down at them with a grin, much to mine and Renji's enjoyment and others' discomfort. "Though considering how attached I am to these babies, I probably would have killed him instead."

"Seriously, who was this guy?!" Tatsuki cried out as she threw her hands up.

"I heard some concerning rumors about the heir of Tsunayashiro family, but I had thought it wasn't anything worse than the other... bad eggs of noble families got up to." Renji said with clear discomfort in his voice, which was understandable as he had allowed his best friend, the very girl we were trying to save from execution, to be adopted by a noble family. Though considering his status, the term 'allow' was very generous; he had no way of stopping Byakuya that day after all, but I guessed that his pride was overriding his common sense concerning that day.

"Oh worse is not even close boy. The other so called bad eggs, which are the majority of those chuckle fucks, are just spoiled little shits who never heard the word 'no' when it comes to their desires. Barely worth remembering and completely useless." She said with a snort and I kindly refrained from reminding her that she was a noble too. "Tsunayashiro Tokinada on the other hand is not only strong and capable, he is also a complete psychopath who knows how to commit most atrocities and cover them up just good enough to let us know that it was him who did those things with no way to prove them." She then spit on the ground.

"About a hundred and fifty years ago, we finally managed to pin something on him. The murder of a young Shinigami who was also his wife and if it hadn't been for Kyoraku's testimony then he probably wouldn't even get the house arrest that he got for it." She said and gulped down a whole bottle of sake once more.

"He killed his own wife?!" Ichigo yelled the words all the other humans with us seemed to be thinking and the rage on his face, it made me surprised that he didn't just start to go Hollow right there.

"He was quite proud of it." Aura said as she reminded us of her existence and made us turn to look at her. "He always cursed Kyoraku Shunsui when he talked about it, but he was always quite proud when he talked about how he acted like a fellow griever when meeting her friend and then revealing himself to be her murderer. He would always get a good laugh out of how he couldn't be touched even after that person became the captain of the ninth squad." At her words Yoruichi's eyes widened and I could see the dots connect in her mind about why Kaname Tosen had joined Aizen.

"It doesn't matter anymore, he's dead." I said with a sigh, feeling the weight of the bastard's sword; which was with Rika in my shadow. "You two get back to training and master your stupid swords already, there is a chance that Rukia's execution might be moved forward since they know that we're here to save her." I said with a frown and then left before they could say anything.

The battle to save Rukia... while I had little to no doubt about being able to fight Byakuya, I was hesitant to actually join the fight. Not because any danger of the battle itself but because of what awaited us after the battle.

Aizen.

It was almost hilarious, I had bodied three and a half captains since coming to Soul Society and Tokinada had been on a similar power level. Yet the thought of facing the traitor captain... after so long I must have forgotten what fear felt like, but now I felt it very clearly at the thought of clashing against Aizen. Maybe even more so than clashing with Yamamoto Genryuusai.

I let out a breath and slapped myself with both hands to calm myself down. There was no such thing as a unsolvable problem. And as I looked around the training grounds, I could feel a smile form in my face and knelt down; a plan finally starting to form inside my head.

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