Yosh, here's the 3rd chapter sorry for the late update... (kinda slow pacing for a while)

Disclaimer: I do not own neither Bleach nor HP... -_-

The sun is high up in the sky when Ichigo arrived at soul society grounds. It was ten in the morning, just in time to welcome the new recruits from the academy.

The war did a number of casualties, and as such the Shin'ō Academy decided to let the students graduate early to be of use to the Gotei 13. Some graduates barely able to release their shikai and some don't perform well in Zanjutsu, Hakuda, Hohō, or Kidō.

Ichigo sigh, just thinking on how he will train those newly grads made his head ache. 'Well it can't be helped, the Gotei 13 is short in numbers and there's still a lot of ongoing reconstruction not only inside Sereitei but also some inner districts of Rukongai that were affected'. Walking in the eight division training ground he noticed that there are at least twenty-four newly inducted soul reapers.

"Oi gather up you lot!" Lisa's voice boomed in throughout the training ground while holding her favourite porn magazine. "I'm Yadōmaru Lisa, and I'm the eight division's fukutaichou. You fools are here to get a briefing on how this division works and know the rules and regulations, do you understand?"

The recruits sweat drops when they noticed the magazine in their vice captain's right hand before answering in unison, "Y-yes fukutaichou!"

"Oh seems Ichigo's here…" Lisa looked at the entrance of the training ground where Ichigo was standing a few moments before he shunpo's beside her at the front.

"Yo! Kurosaki Ichigo, eight division's captain." Ichigo introduces himself shortly. "There's only one rule here in my division that is: To Protect. "I may not know you all on a personal level, but I know everyone of you has a story to tell and dreams to fulfil. Take pride on your shinigami power and use it as your strength to fulfil those dreams and most especially to protect those who are precious to you. Remember being a soul reaper has lots of responsibilities and if you abuse your shinigami status…"

"I'll see to it personally" Ichigo then finishes with a dark tone and releasing a fair amount of reiatsu and then retracting it back after a while just to intimidate the new recruits. Lisa shakes her head at this. The recruits were clearly affected by the sudden released of huge amount of reiatsu suffocating them.

"Taichou, the report of the local shinigami stationed over England is in your office and some other paperwork's"
"Ugh paperwork, I'll leave to you those recruits now and don't corrupt them much. Oh by the way tell them training will be thrice a week and give them some tasks to help with the reconstruction." Ichigo then flash stepped away towards his office.

"All right I'm left in charge now, so listen you lot! These are the rules and regulations to follow…"

As Ichigo finishing signing those mountain-loads of paperwork, Rukia barged in his office.

"Ichigo!" Rukia shouted.

"Yo! Rukia, what are you doing here?" Ichigo inquired without looking to his new companion.

"You idiot, we're supposed to have lunch together! Well seeing that it's almost dinner time now, I supposed you didn't eat yet…"

"Ah, sorry bout' that" Briefly glancing to Rukia's direction by the couch, he added "I've finished my other paperwork but this report from the local shinigami over England got me engrossed."

By this time Rukia moved to peer over Ichigo's shoulder to read the files in his hands. "What is it about? Increased in hollow activities?"

"Yeah, but there's more to it… It seems some people over there are spiritually aware but not to the extent that they can see a soul reaper but enough to feel a hollow's presence. Moreover, there's a fussed about a 'dark lord' whoever the hell that is" By this time Ichigo got a confuse expression on his face.

"Well, have you inquired Kyouraku-soutaichou about this? Maybe he knows something." Rukia said.

'I remember Kyouraku-san saying that Europe has low hollow activity almost nonexistent, so what gives now?' Ichigo ponders.

It is indeed unusual for a place to have many spiritually aware beings to have low hollow activity for many years. If you would compare it to his town, Karakura, you can say that the more people who possessed even a miniscule amount of reiatsu will be a perfect meal to those masked creatures and also this is why his town was chosen by Aizen to be the perfect sacrifice to achieve his twisted goal. But if you think about it, why England suddenly got a rise on these activities? Shouldn't it be there in the first place? Is there any kind of barriers that protected them those years? Or is something or someone behind all of this?

"I'll ask him some other time" Suddenly Ichigo's stomach growled in protest breaking the seriousness that's lingering in the atmosphere. Rukia chuckles at this.

"Come on Ichigo, let's go get some dinner then you can go back to your brooding" Rukia smirk at him while tugging his arm so they can get going to have a dinner near the first district of Rukongai or else Ichigo won't move his ass over.

"Wha-what the hell Rukia! I don't brood! And stop tugging my arm I can walk just fine" Ichigo said scowling at the petite shinigami.

"Whatever you say baka"

"Midget" And that earned him a well placed kick on his chin. Some things never change.

Mayuri walks up to the first division barracks requesting for an appointment with the captain commander. He decided that he will confide this matter to him before taking action on the matter himself, well considering it is not within his jurisdiction.

"Kurotsuchi-taichou, what brings you here?" Nanao said eyeing the odd captain suspiciously.

"Tsk, I'm here to talk to the soutaichou about some important matters" Mayuri's mutters in his creepy commanding voice.

"You should have sent a hell butterfly for a prior noticed then" Nanao retorts back. Suddenly the connecting to the soutaichou's office opened revealing a man with pink haori.

"Yare-yare, what has got you so work up this fine evening my lovely Nanao~chan?" Kyorakou said in his usual teasing voice when addressing to his fukutaichou.

"Hmmp, Kurotsuchi-taichou is here to see you" With that she walks away from the scene.

"Nanao~chan, don't lea—"

"Ahem" Mayuri's voice cuts through. "Ah, well 'soutaichou' I've had some interesting matters to tell you."

When Shunsui Kyouraku took over the position of being captain commander, not everybody is pleased, well let's just say only one captain is not pleased. Mayuri always considers himself above anybody with his intellect and all, but only Yamamoto has earned his praise and high respect. Though Mayuri have some respect to Shunsui in his own way, it doesn't mean he can't argue back with him. It's just the way he is as always.

Going back to his commander's voice, Kyouraku offers "Let's talk this over a cup of good sake, shall we?"

"I don't drink, besides we have an important matter to discuss and it's about your previous jurisdiction in the human world, or perhaps should I say an isolated place within the human world?"

With that Kyouraku leads the other captain towards his office. This will going to be a long talk, and Ichigo is yet to find out.

A/N: I don't think these translations are necessary coz' probably you've come across with these words before, but nevertheless i'll put it in here:

Shin'ō Academy - spiritual arts academy

shikai - first release form of a soul reaper's sword (zanpakuto)

Zanjutsu - swordsmanship

Hakuda - close combat style fighting (hand-to-hand combat)

Hohō - fast movement(footwork)

Kidō - demon arts

fukutaichou - vice captain

taichou - captain

soutaichou - captain commander

shunpo - flash step

baka - idiot

sake - rice wine

Until next time... Thank you for reading ^^~

8/13/2014