EPILOGUE: EMPLOYEE EVALUATIONS

THE SOUL PALACE

"Good morning sleepy head", Ichigo gave Orihime's cheek a poke as he lay beside her in their large new bed. She was too tired to wake after last night's 'activities'. Slipping out of the silky covers he put on a loose pair of pants and walked over to the balcony of their huge royal bedroom. Looking out of the Soul Palace he took a moment to admire what he did with the place. He pretty much reshaped the Warwhelt back into something similar to the original palace. The only difference was the color scheme was changed to accompany more blacks and the overall shape of his chrysalis palace was made to look more dagger like. Some gothic architecture was also incorporated into the style as well. The five palaces of the royal guard he pretty much left up to them. Since it's where they would live Ichigo figured they have the right to decide how they look. Ichigo's black power took the form of his giant black dragon-like battleship once again, only bigger now, that orbited around the Soul Palace for added protection. He left Beelzebub in charge of the ship for now.

"Alright time to go to work", Ichigo said aloud putting some clothes on. "See you later Hime", he gave his still sleeping princess a kiss on the cheek and smiled when her wings tried to unconsciously wrap around him. As much as he would love to spend more time in bed with her, Ichigo had a long week of reorganizing the Soul Society.

CENTRAL FORTY SIX

The entire governing body of soul society was together in their meeting hall discussing what this sudden gathering was called for. They heard the new acting Soul King Ichigo Kurosaki wanted to speak to them. They figured he wanted to meet them and give them his blessing to continue their duties or to praise them for upholding the laws of soul society. A servant announced the king's presence and everyone went silent in anticipation. In walked a tall young man with long orange hair tied in a loose tail. For the new Soul King he was dressed very casually in a black long sleeve, deep v t-shirt, and some dark skinny jeans and white converse shoes.

"Wow it's dimly lit in here", was the first thing out of Ichigo's mouth. Trailing behind him was Senjumaru Shutara. After they found out that he left the soul palace without their knowledge the royal guard tried to convince him to stay where he was the safest. When that failed they made sure to keep a close eye on him which proved to be extremely difficult. With his new ability to open up a garganta wherever he chose and his Antecedent that let him bring into reality past versions of himself that he used to distract them, keeping track of Ichigo Sama was a job in itself, so the best Squad Zero could do was have at least one of them follow him down to Soul Society or the world of the living whenever he left. "Can we turn the lights up", the servant did exactly as he was told and flipped the light switch to make things brighter.

"Ichigo Sama, it is a distinct pleasure to have you in our presence", a random member of the governing body said standing up from his seat and giving a bow. The rest of the members stood up and did the same.

"Straight to the ass kissing then", Ichigo chuckled. "I like that", he began pacing around the room getting a look at everyone before speaking again. "Alright I'm not going to pussy foot around here, I'm not happy with how things have been run up till now. I sifted through a mountain of documents of laws and changes implemented by this council", Ichigo could hear some of them swallowing nervously while the others stiffened in fear. "And what I read almost made me sick, Central 46 has been diverting resources and money that was supposed to be used in assisting and protecting the Rukon district for centuries", many of them were sweating profusely now. Ichigo Kurosaki's status made him the highest authority in all the realms, he could execute all of them on a whim if he wanted. "The souls in the Rukon have been complaining about their unfair and unjust treatment, yet their pleas fell on deaf ears. I know because I was one of them for a time. Well starting today that's going to change", he grinned relishing the looks of fear on these fools faces.

"We're going to have an election!" Ichigo announced. "From now one every five years, there will be an election to decide who gets to be members of Central 46", many of them sighed in relief and some even smirked victoriously. They thought they could perhaps rig the election so they could keep their positions. Some of the noble houses that would of course be voting owed a few of them favors. "Oh don't get ahead of yourselves, I never said who would be voting", Ichigo said as if reading their corrupt thoughts. "Every shinigami will of course get a vote, high ranking members of the noble families will be allowed to cast votes, but more importantly every single citizen of the Rukon district will be allowed to vote", the members of the council paled considerably when they understood what he was trying to do.

"Hey Shutara, who makes up the majority population of Soul Society again?" Ichigo asked his guard for today.

"The plus souls, the Rukon is even larger than the population of the seireitei", the seamstress smirked enjoying the torment that Ichigo was inflicting on these old men.

"Interesting, so if I were a governing body, I would want to make sure that those people are happy if I want to keep my nice cushy job", Ichigo laughed walking around the room. "Or perhaps they'll vote for someone who will extend their hand and help them, since I'm making it so anyone can run for your seats", he could almost hear the gears in their heads turning to try and figure out a way around this. "I'm giving this whole electoral system a trial run of a hundred years", some of them already started plotting a way to sabotage this system so Kurosaki would just go back to the current system and they could keep their positions. "Oh and before you go thinking of sabotaging this, I'll tell you now that you seriously want this system to work. If it doesn't then I'll just abolish the entire Central 46 and I'll decide everything from then on", he threatened walking back to the center of the room. "So are we good, do we understand each other?" The members of the council sighed in defeat and nodded their heads to the king. Ichigo smirked and headed towards the exit, but paused. "And one more thing. Any major decisions for example, execution orders, genocide of a race, or declaring war will be run by me first".

"Have a nice day", Ichigo walked out of the council chambers laughing while eating a lollypop.

SHUEHEI HISAGI

"Oh no, please don't hit me anymore", Ichigo said holding an action figure made to look like Yhwach. "Too late for that asshole!" He knocked the plastic figure off his desk with another toy made to look like himself. "We should really market these things", he laughed looking at the action figures that he had Kisuke make for him.

"Ichigo Sama, your first appointment is here", one of his bat winged girls said stepping into his office at the Soul Palace. One of the levels of his palace was a colossal, well decorated office, with paintings and posters he liked covering the walls. Ichigo sat in a red leather chair in the center at a large dark wood desk.

"Send him in", Ichigo slid his new action figures into a drawer while placing the person's file on the desk. A moment later in walked Shuehei Hisagi, lieutenant of squad nine. "Ah Shuehei, darling, do you like what I've done with the place?" He greeted him gesturing towards the small chair in front of the desk.

"Um…it looks nice Ichigo Sama", Hisagi bowed politely then made his way to the chair and sat down, wondering why he was called to the Soul Palace. He was busy taking care of his division now that Captain Kensei Muguruma was dead when these two scantily clad identical girls with bat wings and white hair came up to him saying the new Soul King wanted to have a word with him. They opened a garganta and told him to go right then.

"There's no easy way to say this, so I'll just come out and say it", Ichigo cleared his throat for a second. "Your fucking fired".

"W-what?" Shuehei looked at him in shock.

"Huh? What do you know that was easy to say", he smirked.

"I don't understand", the poor lieutenant looked to the king for sympathy.

"Lack of competence and ability is the real issue here. During this war you were defeated by not one, not two, not three, but four different sternritters. I'll give you a pass on the last one since he was an elite Nazi that I had to take down, but seriously that's pathetic".

"But, but, but, I've done a lot of good for the seireitei!", Shuehei pleaded sadly.

"Yes I'm looking over your file, your highest accomplishment is defeating a regular old arrancar that served as an underling to an Espada", Ichigo frowned flipping through the shinigami's file.

"Well he said he was a strong as a captain", Hisagi argued.

"Speaking of that fight I've read something that's very troubling, something you said about your Zanpakuto", Ichigo turned the pages until he found the statement. "Ah, here it is, your own words. 'This is my Zanpakuto, but I don't like it. Look at the shape, it looks like it's made for reaping souls', I'm paraphrasing but that's the gist", he closed the file and rubbed his temples in irritation. "Shuehei, what is your job?"

"Well, I'm a Lieutenant", Hisagi answered.

"Yes, but what is the title of your job?" Ichigo asked through his clenched teeth. Getting silence he decided to answer. "You're a shinigami, a god of death, a grim reaper. Reaping souls is your job description first and foremost and you're whining about having a Zanpakuto that's shaped to do exactly that"

"Um", Shuehei was regretting his words now.

"You hold back because you're afraid of your own power, do you realize that if everyone was like you the Gotei thirteen would never survive?", Ichigo chastised him. "Until you learn to play with the cards your dealt, your services are no longer necessary".

"But who will lead the ninth division?" Shuehei asked.

"Spoiler alert, but Renji is getting promoted to captain of that division, which is cool, Red disserves the position with how hard he fought in this war", Ichigo chuckled wondering how happy his friend would be when he found out. Putting the file back in his desk he noticed that Hisagi was staring at him with a hurtful expression. "Oh we're finished here, I suggest you go back to the seireitei and pack your things".

"Okay", Hisagi's bangs covered his eyes as he stood up to leave. Before he reached the door Ichigo called out to him.

"Hey cheer up kid, you can reapply to the Gotei thirteen in a decade, use the time to train and properly understand your Zanpakuto", Ichigo said waving him off. Shuehei perked up a bit deciding to do as the new king advised and conquer his fears before returning to service in ten years.

"What a productive day", Ichigo grinned while spinning in his big red office chair.

TOSHIRO HITSUGAYA

"You wanted to see me Kurosaki Sama", the now older and mature Hitsugaya said walking into the office.

"Come on Toshiro, you can call me Ichigo in private", Ichigo grinned sitting at his desk. He recently added a small bowl of candy to his desk and a snow globe with miniature chibi-fied versions of Aizen, Tsukishima and Yhwach inside accompanied by the words 'Stupid Evil Dicks'. "So, a little birdy told me that Rangiku finally cashed in your V card for you", Toshiro turned red enough to melt his ice.

"I don't see how that's any of your business", He turned his head away as he sat in the chair across from Ichigo.

"So how was it? Great I imagine" Ichigo asked making the captain's face even redder. Hitsugaya remembered the other night how Rangiku coaxed him into her bedroom. Apparently his older body was much more susceptible to a woman's advances. He wasn't ashamed, mainly because it was great, but he felt it was a private matter.

"Who told you about us?" The captain asked trying to deflect the conversation from himself. Ichigo just grinned at his question and tossed today's issue of the Seireitei Communication magazine at him. The front cover was a picture of Toshiro asleep in the nude on Rangiku's bed, with only a sheet covering his lower area. Lying next to him also with a sheet covering her body was his Lieutenant, smiling and holding up two fingers, V for victory. Her other hand was out of frame, she took the picture herself. The featured article read, 'How I Took My Captains Virginity, by Rangiku Matsumoto'.

"It's a seven page article, with a surprising amount of graphic detail", Ichigo chuckled while Toshiro fumed as he tightly gripped the magazine. "This might be inappropriate to ask, but can I get an autograph. I just think this magazine might be worth something one day", Ichigo could practically see the steam coming out of the other's ears.

"So that's why everyone was smirking at me today and whispering behind my back", Toshiro mumbled through gritted teeth.

"Now that we got that out of the way", Ichigo grabbed the magazine out of Hitsugaya's hands and put it back in his desk while taking out a file. "On to more pressing matters".

"If you're going to fire me like Shuehei, just do it without the theatrics please", he said coldly, while inside he was nervous about this whole meeting.

"Oh relax, you get to keep your job, stud", He grinned looking over the file. "I like you too much to get rid of you, but I just have some concerns over a few…let's call them missteps".

"Missteps?" Toshiro raised an eyebrow at that.

"Why did you of all people pick a fight with sternritter H the Heat?" Ichigo asked locking his fingers together in front of his face. "Your power is ice, ice is weak to fire. Didn't you ever play Pokémon?"

"Um…no", Hitsugaya didn't know what this Pokémon thing was.

"I get what you were trying to do, you were trying to catch the hothead by surprise with that vacuum ice wall thing, but seriously I was told you were a prodigy and yet you make an unbelievably bad decision", the captain of squad ten was surprised and didn't think at the time it was such a bad move. "Not only that, but you recklessly charged Aizen during the winter war, knowing full well what he could do. Your record is not looking good".

"What do you want me to do about it?" Toshiro asked.

"Well, I've decided to sign you up for counselling", Ichigo said while filling out a slip of paper.

"Counselling?" Now Toshiro was confused.

"Yes, you'd be surprised what a talk with Orihime can do for someone. We've set up these centers all over soul society, but lucky you, you get to have a session with the queen herself", Ichigo grinned handing the stunned captain his appointment card. "Dismissed", he said tossing Hitsugaya a winter mint piece of hard candy from his bowl.

"I wonder who I'm seeing tomorrow", Ichigo said to himself as he watched Toshiro leave.

SHUNSUI KYORAKU

"Things are awfully quite today", the head captain said watching Nanao go about the office. It was a sad day that he now found himself on the other side of old man Yama's desk. Still a lot of work needed to be done in rebuilding the seireitei.

"You shouldn't jinx it by saying things like that", Nanao said.

"Oh I doubt anything interesting will happen today", as he said this one of Ichigo's 'girls' flew down and landed on the balcony, her bat wings folding behind her as she gave a salute.

"Ichigo Sama requests your presence immediately", she said. Nanao swallowed nervously, after Shuehei got canned and captain Hitsugaya being sent to counselling, she was afraid for her own captain's sake.

"Relax Nanao, he probably just wants to find out how the reconstruction is going", Kyoraku told her to ease her anxiety.

"He's right, Ichigo Sama said he's not in trouble", the bat girl smiled cheerfully as she lied, a garganta then opened up in the room.

"I'll be back shortly", he waved at her tipping his hat. Shunsui passed through the portal into the Soul Palace. When he arrived he found the garganta led right to Ichigo's office.

"Well of course the wedding cake has to be that big!" Ichigo said into the phone. He saw Kyoraku come in and gestured for him to sit down and that he would be with him in a moment. "Ikumi, I thought your little Unagiya Shop could handle a simple wedding", he paused as she yelled at him over the phone. "The cake has to be big, because a lot of people are going to be attending", Ichigo said as more words came through her end. "I'm very popular where I live, I'll send you the guest list. Bye-bye", and with that he hung up.

"Planning a wedding?" Kyoraku smiled at him.

"It's a lot more stressful than it looks", Ichigo sighed running his hands through his long orange hair that he decided to wear loose today.

"So I assume you want to know how everyone is recovering or how the repairs is coming along." The head captain said.

"Oh no, let's talk about you", Ichigo grinned and took out a file from his desk. "There's something that's been bothering me ever since I arrived to the battlefield during the war", he said licking his finger and turning a page in the folder. "Apparently from the info I was able to gather, after the second Quincy invasion, you as the new head captain gave no orders, no strategy, no plan of attack, nor did you try and rendezvous with the other captains", closing the file and placing it on his desk Ichigo rested his head in his hands. "So what the fuck man?"

"I'm sure you want me to explain myself", Kyoraku was surprised by the turn of this conversation.

"No shit Sherlock", Ichigo glared at him waiting for an explanation.

"Well you see Ichigo, I have faith in the captains and shinigami of the Gotei Thirteen", he tried to defend his actions.

"Is that why you left everyone to fend for themselves?" Ichigo said harshly.

"If that's the way you want to put it", Kyoraku shrugged, though he was starting to feel a bit guilty.

"There is no other way to put, that's the way it is", Ichigo sighed and grabbed a lollypop from his candy bowl. "We may have come out on top in this war, but at a great cost. A lot of lives were lost and I can't help but think about those who were left to die and the leader who failed to rally his troops", Ichigo stared at the candy while he talked. "I'm not holding you accountable for every death, I understand that we can't be everywhere at once, but you can't just sit back and think that everything will be alright".

"Isn't that what you do?" Kyoraku asked.

"Nope, I know things will be alright. As I told old prune face before I killed him, I don't fight fair, I know how to cheat to win. Everything turns out fine for me because I rig the game", Ichigo said eating his candy. "You're the head captain now Shunsui Kyoraku, in times of crisis I expect you to act like the commander of the Gotei", Kyoraku sighed before deciding not to argue against the Soul King.

"Your right, I suppose I owe you that much, especially for saving Jushiro", he said gratefully.

"Good, you're learning", Ichigo filled out another slip of paper. "Here's your appointment card. I signed you up for counselling with Orihime. Don't be late", he slid the card over to him. "See ya later alligator", Ichigo waved his hand to dismiss him. Kyoraku nodded his head and picked up the card. He was a bit sad that he lost some of Ichigo's faith in him, but he figured this was a good opportunity to get some of that back. Ichigo's phone rang again and he picked it up listening to Ikumi again.

"Hey Kyoraku, any suggestions for drinks at a wedding?" Shunsui grinned and listed off a bunch of different kinds of sake that he knew Ichigo would enjoy.

MAYURI KUROTSUCHI

Captain Kurotsuchi was not having a good day. First he was having trouble reconstructing Nemu's body from scratch with only her cerebral cortex to work with. Then the captains meeting ended up lasting for hours and afterword he was called away by those imbeciles of central forty six who wanted updates on the department of research and development. Walking into his division Mayuri made his way to his lab to find the new Soul King sitting on the table eating a piece of cake from the plate in his hand.

"You. What are you doing here?", the captain scowled at him.

"Eating some cake, want some?" Ichigo smiled.

"What do you want?" Mayuri heard about the so called 'employee evaluations' as Kurosaki called them and figured he was next on the chopping block.

"You know Mr. J, I had to read through a lot of files of some of the atrocities you've done", Ichigo continued eating his slice of cake while he stood up and walked out of the lab. Kurotsuchi followed him wondering why the doors were automatically opening for him. As far as he knew the doors only opened for him and his subordinates to prevent intrusions. "Many of the things you've done, you got away without punishment, well that's going to change".

"What have you done to my department?" Mayuri spat seeing the area they arrived in had been modified with new parts and equipment. Ichigo grinned and stopped at a large metal door, it opened when he arrived and a voice spoke to greet him.

"Greetings your highness and welcome to the computer aided department of research and development", said a loud voice that echoed throughout the dark room. The voice sounded feminine and strangely robotic. The lights finally came on revealing a large spherical room with metal panels covering the walls. Hanging in the center was a large mechanical marvel that looked somewhat like the shape of a bound woman upside down. A single bright yellow eye stared down at them.

"Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System, or GLaDOS!" Ichigo smirked seeing the confusion on the scientists face. "There was this company in the human world, Aperture Science, this was a little project of theirs that they were going to scrap. I swooped in and bought her, seeing the potential use of artificial intelligence".

"And I am eternally grateful for being put to use, for science", GLaDOS said bowing her large mechanical head.

"Just what is the point of this?" Mayuri asked glaring angrily at the computer.

"GLaDOS here is going to be keeping you in line, giving me updates on what you're working on. She'll also make sure you don't do anything inhumane ever again", Ichigo said accusingly.

"Everything I did was the sake of progress, can't you see that?" Mayuri argued.

"Kisuke Urahara made a lot of progress too, and he did it without horribly dissecting and experimenting on people. So you're saying you can't do something that Urahara could do?" Ichigo asked posing a challenge for the mad scientist. As much as he believed in scientific progress, torturing others to get it was just wrong.

"I can operate this facility with an even higher efficiency Captain Kurotsuchi", GLaDOS said making Mayuri perk up in interest.

"Oh and don't bother trying to reprogram her, because she's really, really stubborn", Ichigo told him taking a bite of his cake. "I'll just let you two get to know each other", he said walking out of the central AI chamber. "And GLaDOS", Ichigo stopped and turned to face the massive computer. "Before you even consider withholding info from me or if you start misbehaving again in any way, then I'll attach that little idiot you hate so much to whatever part of you that does the most thinking", Ichigo threatened her. He couldn't see it on her blank white metal face, but he could tell she was nervous. "What was his name again? Walter? Wheatley? Yes that's it. My friend Kisuke is keeping him in good company, but I can have him pop in and attach little Wheatley to you at any time, am I clear?" he asked with narrow eyes.

"Crystal clear your highness", GLaDOS bowed her head again.

"Good, chow folks and remember, science rhymes with compliance", Ichigo chuckled walking out of the chamber with a wave, leaving the AI and the scientist alone.

"Do you know what doesn't rhyme with compliance?" she asked turning to look down at the captain.

"What?" Mayuri questioned.

"Neurotoxin", she said darkly while Kurotsuchi grinned showing gold colored teeth.

"I think we'll get along just fine", he snickered.

TENJIRO KIRINJI

"What the hell is this?" Kirinji asked walking into Ichigo's office tossing a piece of paper on his desk. Ichigo stopped smashing his action figure of Yhwach with a big rubber T-Rex and looked at the paper.

"You're being reassigned, that's what this", Ichigo said dryly putting his toys away. "I thought it was clear", he placed a finger on the paper and slid it back to him.

"Why am I being reassigned? I'm a member of squad zero", Kirinji asked the one thing that wasn't specified on the paper.

"Yes, about that. You see Tenjiro Kirinji, as the Soul King I have the right to choose who gets to be my guard", Ichigo sighed leaning back in his chair. "Based on your performance when Yhwach invaded the palace, I had no choice but to reassign you to captain of the fourth of the division".

"My performance, I fought with everything I had", Kirinji argued.

"And you were defeated, well not defeated, let's say bamboozled since I've never used that word before, by Sternritter W the Wind. Some poor kid that old prune face threw out there as a meat shield", Ichigo frowned staring at the shinigami in disappointment. "Shutara then made quick work of him".

"This isn't fair", he grimaced.

"The Royal Guard is supposed to be prepared for anything, and you guys were not fully prepared for the Quincies", Ichigo said resting his head on his propped up fist. "So cut backs are being made".

"Wait a minute, what about my hot spring waters that can heal any injury?" He asked trying to keep his job.

"My Orihime can heal anything in less than half the time your magic water takes and now that her powers have evolved she can heal things even quicker than that", Ichigo said shooting him down.

"So you're going to make her a member of squad zero then?" Kirinji inquired not liking this.

"Oh no! She's going to be my wife, but don't worry about your position", he then leaned in and whispered. "I'm giving it to Kisuke Urahara"

"Urahara he's going to a member of the royal guard!" Kirinji shouted.

"Why not, he more than qualifies for the position", Ichigo grinned. "Look, Squad four needs a captain and Isane is not ready, she doesn't even have bankai yet and the only one qualified right now for the position is you", Kirinji sighed seeing the logic in such a decision and decided to just live with it.

"Alright I see your point, I'll begin relocating my stuff to the seireitei", he said.

"Good", Ichigo smiled and dismissed him. "Now where was I?" He picked up his figures of Yhwach and a T-Rex and continued stomping on the plastic Quincy King with the dinosaur.

KIRIO HIKIFUNE

"Hm", Ichigo stared silently at Kirio as she sat in front of desk in her skinny form. "I find myself in a bit of a dilemma".

"Oh god, your reassigning me aren't you", she sounded scared.

"No, I haven't decided on that yet", Ichigo said picking a chocolate candy from the bowl on his desk. "Your performance fell to same level of Kirinji, so keeping you around doesn't sit well with me, then again I didn't really get a chance to see what you can do".

"Well I am a chef, I make the meals here your highness", Kirio said trying to make herself look better.

"About that, I kind of found a potential replacement chef", Ichigo rubbed the back of his head in thought on how to handle this.

"A replacement?" She questioned wondering who could possibly replace her. Ichigo just grinned before he picked up his phone and pushed a button that led to one of the lower levels of his palace.

"Yukihira, get your cute ass up to my office!", he ordered then hung up while counting to ten. When he was done a new person appeared in a burst of flash step. The young man had bright red spikey hair, golden eyes and wore simple gray pants and a black long sleeve shirt with the sleeves rolled up to his elbows. He had a long white clothe wrapped around his wrist and forearm for some odd reason.

"Hey boss!" Yukihira Soma said cheerfully.

"Yukihira, I see you getting better at flash step", Ichigo commented.

"Yeah that Yoruichi lady has been teaching me", he beamed giving his boss a thumbs up.

"Um, who is this Kurosaki Sama?" Kirio asked looking at the young man.

"This is Yukihira Soma, your potential replacement", Ichigo said with a smirk. "Funny story, I was taking my sister Yuzu to Tootsuki Culinary Academy where she'll be attending the next few years and I run into this kid who just recently graduated as number one of the elite ten, whatever that means", he explained. "I noticed him immediately because of the geyser of spirit energy lying dormant inside him. We started talking and I offered him a job as chef in the soul palace".

"You brought a human here?" Kirio looked at him like he was crazy.

"Yup, and when I unlocked his reiatsu, he's almost captain level", Ichigo chuckled. "So I'm having Yoruichi teach him flash step and Urahara show him how to fight".

"And I just recently got my asauchi, I'll have my Zanpakuto's name in no time", Soma said confidently.

"I bet you will", Ichigo liked the kid's determination and charisma. "So here's what we're going to do, something at that academy gave me this idea", the king smirked enjoying this whole situation a little too much. "We're going to have a Shokugeki!"

"A what?" Kirio didn't understand while Yukihira Soma smirked liking the challenge.

"I'll give you both three days to prepare. And on the fourth day we'll have triple Shokugeki battle", Ichigo explained that in the morning they will have a breakfast Shokugeki, then later a lunch Shokugeki, and that evening a dinner Shokugeki. "Victory in the first two will be worth a point each, while dinner will be worth two points and in case of tie we'll have a desert tie breaker. The winner of this competition will be awarded the position of royal guard and head chef of the Soul Palace".

"So who's going to be judging boss?" Soma asked with excitement.

"Myself and Orihime of course will be judges, as for the third, well…I'll leave that a mystery", Ichigo chuckled. "Aaaaand, Go!" Soma disappeared in another burst of flash step, back to the kitchen in the palace that Ichigo gave him. Kirio Hikifune just stared at Ichigo in shock, not believing that this was happening to her. "Are you still her Kirio? If I were you I'd spend less time gawking and more time preparing to fight for your job", and with that she woke up out of her trance and vanished with haste while Ichigo just grinned looking forward to the Shokugeki in a few days.

ONE WEEK LATER

Ichigo was finally done reorganizing the Gotei thirteen into something better than what it used to be. Some people that he felt needed counselling were already improving in their decision making. Even Central 46 was getting their act together, increasing patrols in the Rukon, and transferring funds back to repairing the plus soul's homes and improving their abhorrent conditions. Yukihira Soma ended up winning the Shokugeki and became a new member of Squad zero, however Ichigo didn't have the heart to kick Kirio out after she cried when she lost, so he made her the lieutenant under Soma. Kisuke Urahara didn't waste any time setting up an exact replica of his shop here in the Soul Palace when Ichigo asked him to become a member of his royal guard. The man was honored that Ichigo would give him such a position and swore to protect the Soul Palace from any and all threats but Ichigo knew that the man was chomping at the bit for this was the perfect chance to study Ichigo's and Orihime's powers.

Everything down in the seireitei seemed to be running smoother now as well. Ichigo made sure certain people who were lacking ability were properly demoted and those who deserved to be promoted were given such opportunities. Renji was made captain of squad nine and decided to keep Mashiro on as his lieutenant. Tenjiro Kirinji was welcomed back into the fold of the Gotei thirteen as the new captain of squad four. Squad three had yet to receive a new captain and was currently being run by RoboKira, as Ichigo liked to call him.

Neliel became the official ambassador for Hueco Mundo and frequently visited the seireitei in order to keep the peace between them, but mainly she just wanted to visit her friends. Ichigo always invited her to the Soul Palace much to the ire of the older members of the royal guard.

As for Uryu Ishida, the last remaining Quincy, not counting his father. Ichigo gave him an interesting offer. He said he wanted to create a new race of Quincies, ones that actually have an immunity to hollows and can purify their souls properly. Quincies who can work together with the shinigami in harmony. Ichigo wanted Uryu to be the leader of this new race of Quincies, to teach them and told his friend that the decision to create and lead this race will be entirely up to him. Truthfully it didn't matter to Ichigo either way, if Uryu said a new race of Quincies was unnecessary, he'd be alright with that too. As of now Ichigo Kurosaki had yet to get an answer from the last Quincy, but that was fine as well, he could take as long as he needed to make a decision.

"Well everything seems to be in order now. I think I'll sit back and see how this all turns out", Ichigo smiled and propped his feet up on the desk.

TWENTY YEARS LATER

"And that kids is how I killed god and took his power", Ichigo said to his two offspring. His six year-old daughter Masaki sat on his lap, she was an exact replica of her mother except she had Ichigo's brown eyes. Sitting on the floor of the living room was his ten year-old son Ryuunosuke, Ryuu for short, looked just like his father except for the white streak in his orange spikey hair and his gold eyes on black sclera that would have looked scary if he wasn't a chip off his father. The reason for these features was Ichigo's hollow manifestation Yami said that he imparted a gift on to his king's little brat, but they had yet to discover what that was.

"Dad's so awesome!" Ryuu shouted.

"Daddy can you tell us the one where you met mommy again?" Masaki asked giving him the big glassy eyes filled with hope.

"Another time princess, Yukihira has got dinner waiting for us and your sexy mom is coming back from the seireitei tonight", Ichigo told his little girl putting her on the floor and headed towards the dinning hall.

"When can I train and learn to kick ass?" Ryuu asked following his dad.

"Soon and don't let your mother hear you say the A word", Ichigo chuckled smiling at his happy family. It was interesting twenty years for him, a few problems here and there, but everything worked out in the end.

THE END

"Welcome to MY soul society". Did anybody else get a huge smile on their face when Aizen said that in recent chapters? Not only that but he fooled Yhwach with Kyoka Suigetsu! The one thing I wanted to happen, HAPPENED! And then Ichigo friggin Evildeaded Yhwach! Which is what I call it when someone in Anime or manga gets horrifically chopped up.

So some of you may have noticed that this is part one of the Epilogue. Well some people gave me the idea to do a couple one shots added to this that take place after the Quincy war, so I decided to do just that. There's going to be a wedding one, a might do something with the Zanpakuto rebellion arc and possibly the hell verse movie. Officially this is where the story ends.

UPDATE!: Change of plans I'm putting the extra things in a separate story that will be called PIECES OF CANDY

I snuck in a little crossover with Shokugeki no Soma in there, mainly because I'm obsessed with that series right now. I saw a fan art picture somewhere of Mayuri with GLaDOS from Portal and it made me wonder if they would get along.

Also I'm just going to assume that Toshiro is permanently an adult now until Kubo tells us otherwise. The fact that we'll probably never know the name of Kenpachi's bankai is really screwing with my OCD.

Next Bleach story I do will probably be an Ichigo X Yoruichi story. I just have no idea what it will be about yet.

Fun fact Ichigo's Zanpakuto in my original idea for this story was actually going to be just a bunch of swords stuck in the ground around him with no powers in them. I got the idea from Mifune in Soul Eater.

Anyway thanks for reading I hope you all enjoyed the story.