Visiting the Gotei 11.

I was told by Soifon that Ikkaku had carried me to the hospital after I passed out so thanking him was the least I could do. Even though I despised those knuckleheads. So I left the little courtyard I had been training in and walked to the Gotei 11 quarters.

Upn my arrival I was treated by the sight of Ichigo jumping out of an already broken window. I raised my hand in a greeting motion as he stormed by. I didn’t have to ask for a reason as Kenpachi stormed right after him.

“Stop right there!” he shouted. “Hell no! I will not fight you again.” Ichigo’s panicked answer came.

No need to get involved there. I stepped over an **** Shinigami that was lying in the remains of the window and looked inside.

“Jo, you are that guy from the forest.” That was Ikkaku, conveniently Iba was there as well. “Name is Nize, Third seat of the Gotei 2. I wanted to thank you for the other day.” Ikkaku signalled me to come in. Reluctantly I did and was greeted by a firm headlock.

I can’t say I am especially happy about getting pressed to a sweaty men’s naked chest. “You Gotei 2 guys are always have a stick up your ass.” Mindful nodding all around. “Why don’t you have some fun and fight me, huh, all these other guys are too cowardly to even raise a stick in my direction.”

With that he released me. I gasped for fresh air. “Well, if that is what you want I will entertain you for a bit.” Seeing as I had nothing better to do the two of us sparred a little. He was better than me. There was no doubt about it, from a pure technical viewpoint his technique was better than mine. Although not that much better.

After a couple of rounds Iba chimed in, then some guy named Yumichika with incredibly flamboyant behaviour soon followed. Which was great because it meant that I could take a break as the rules stated that it was one on one.

This continued for hours until I had to tag out to go take a shower again, something I had wanted to avoid. “A great idea actually.” Ikkaku said when I brought it up. “Don’t want to be drenched in sweat when I tell Ichigo that I will beat his dumb face next time I see him. Let’s go to the group shower.”

Before I knew it they had me dragged in there. To my surprise Iba and Yumichika came with us. To my even greater surprise Zaraki Kenpachi was also in there.

“Yo.” He said. I always thought that Kenpachi looked ridiculous with his bells, but seeing him now with his hair down I appreciated them. Guy looked fucking terrifying without them. “Captain how come you are in here?” Yumichika asked and put down a basket with an unnecessary amount of skincare products.

“I chased Ichigo and somehow I winded up here, so I thought I might as well take a shower.” I didn’t dare to ask how that was even possible, instead I turned on a shower. The great thing about group showers is that the temperature is always regulated.

“So.” That was Iba, for whatever reasons he still wore sunglasses. “Nize, was it? You seem relatively capable how come I have never heard of you before?” “Just recently got promoted, turns out all I needed was a two weeks drill.”

“Huh, who trained you then?” Iba asked. “Soifon did personally, or at least sometimes, most of it was being locked in a room for hours on end to unlock my Shikai.”

Ikkaku got into the conversation. “I was meaning to ask about that. What does it do, portals?” “Pretty much yeah, that and a weapon of my choice. Ey, Yumichika can you toss me one of your articles, you seem to have plenty of it.”

I figured I might as well smell good when I am already taking a second shower before going on a date. “Of course, I know exactly what you need.” He tossed me a bottle with a peacock on it. I just thanked him and opened the bottle.

“Huh, didn’t take you for somebody who gives a crap about his skincare.” Ikkaku said. “I normally don’t but I have a date later.” “Oh, who is the lucky lady?” Yumichika asked.

“Captain Soifon.” The room was silent except for the constant running of water. Then Kenpachi let out a roaring laughter. “This is great.” he said in his booming voice. I was confused at the reaction and raised an eyebrow. “Well, to each their own I guess.” Ikkaku mumbled, Iba and Yumichika nodded in agreement.

‘Well screw you guys.’ I thought and tossed the bottle back at Yumichika after I was done with it. “We should get out of here soon otherwise we will miss Ichigo and the others.” Ikkaku said. I agreed and soon enough we left the shower.