Disclaimer – The only Bleach I own comes in a small white plastic container used for laundry.

A/N – If this fic isn't quite up to your standards I apologize now. I haven't had the best track records for fics, but I hope to break it with this one. Bear with me for a few chapters, kay?

Ch 1: Exposition

Sousuke Aizen has been killed. His two lieutenants, Ichimaru Gin and Kaname Tousen, have also both been killed. Every Espada, Fraccion, and Numero – minus Grimmjow and Neliel – have been eliminated. The threat from arrancar invasion has been essentially removed. Of course, arrancar will continue to exist, as hollows are always forming, and gillians will always try to remove their masks. But the main threat of an invasion had been dealt with.

However, the victory of Sereitei has not been a perfect one. Several hundreds of shinigami were killed, including several captains. Of the nine which were active during the war, only five managed to remain alive at the end of the war: Hitsugaya Toushirou, Kyouraku Shunsui, Soifon, Kuchiki Byakuya, and Komamura Sajin.

Yamamoto-soutaichou was killed after taking out the Quarto Espada, Ulquiorra, and the Segundo Espada, Halibel. Old and exhausted as he was after the battle, it was a simple matter for the Primero Espada, Stark, to continue where the other two left off and easily decapitate the elder shinigami.

Unohana Retsu was killed while tending to the wounded shinigami all over the battlefield. It was near to the end of the final battle, and after tending to so many wounded, even the Taichou of the 4th was feeling tired and wiped out. It was a simple matter for Gin to stab her through the bottom of Minazuki and kill her along with the dozen or so shinigami inside.

Zaraki Kenpachi went out blazing. Weeks before the final battle he had finally managed to communicate with his zanpakutou, and as such was even more unstoppable than before. However, even a Taichou of Zaraki's standards faced risked when he dealt with all 99 Numero-ranked arrancar at once. The 11th Taichou had been killed by a lance through his spiritual organs, thus rendering him useless and easily dealt with even by an unranked arrancar.

Kurotsuchi Mayuri was an odd case. In his usual manner, he unleashed his Bankai almost immediately, leading to the deaths of many Fraccion and unseated shinigami at once. It wasn't until after he challanged the Quinto Espada, Nnoitra, that he faced any challenges. Nnoitra proved far too capable of dealing with him, able to strike at such a far distance with his huge moon-shaped scythe and at a close distance with his bulked-up minotaur-like form once he used his resureccion. Seeing no other way out, Kurotsuchi-taichou did the only thing he could think of – he grabbed Nnoitra and ordered Konjiki Ashisogi Jizou to run them both through. He didn't let go until they were both dead.

Ukitake Juushiro didn't even make it to the final battle. His disease had finally claimed him mere days before the final invasion into Hueco Mundo was planned and died peacefully.

But the biggest event during the war was the death of Kurosaki Ichigo, which – though it helped Sereitei immensely by allowing him to act as a full-time shinigami – it left his family in ruins and ruined him mentally. He managed to kill the three top men in Aizen's army – Aizne himself and the two shinigami traitors – but at the cost of his state of mind because now his two little sisters had no family left because Isshin, retired though he was, drafted himself into Sereitei's army and died in the war as well. Since it was his second death, he couldn't come back ever, and his death combined with Ichigo's first death led Ichigo to insanity.

However, their sacrifices were not in vain. Sereitei was in a state of peace, and it could rebuild.

This is the aftermath of the war.

A/N – I hope it's an okay introduction. I know I killed off waay a lot of people from the get-go, but this way I can mold it into my own story and I can create it how I feel.

Don't worry, it shouldn't suck.

And don't be alarmed if I don't update for a while, I have school work too and I'm working on Eagle stuff for scouts so I'll be busy. Expect once every week or so

Also, if you have any wants for captains, lemme know. I'm a little stuck on one or two posts..

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