Training with the Ever-smiling young boy

Thus begin the daily practice of Keiko with Everyone else. Keiko first taught everyone something he was specialized in, fighting without a Zanpakuto for which he was famous for and titled as. Secondary came the use of Kido art completely to measure the strength of your opponents. Likes of Zaraki and Yamamoto preferred to fight with their Zanpakuto so Keiko tortured them, even more, forcing them to change their ways of fighting. With Yamamoto, he taught him how to preserve his energy without showing off and wasting power while fighting. Zaraki was a special case, Keiko first took away his Zanpakuto itself and forcing him to fight using different means.

After 4 months of training everyone, Keiko announced that a tournament will be held between captains, lieutenants, and others seaters among their grade, those who are deemed too weak will be severely punished by him and those who win the tournament will be given a free change to attack him in any manner they want, he won't retaliate or block the attack in any manner.

The tournament had different categories such as the use of different art forms: Hakuda using one's own body to fight the opponent, Hoho race to motivate each other and decrease the gap between the speed of an individual regardless of their ranks, Kido which Keiko has personally taught and finally full-on fight with Zanpakuto and everything people were free to use any form of their sword they want Shikai bankai or whatever. Yamamoto was prohibited from using his Zanpakuto in the final event and have to fight off opponents using other means with a simple training sword.

Keiko smilingly announced all everything to the entire soul society while also putting in a request to bring back the 5 individual humans who invaded soul society at Rukia's trail explaining that he saw potential in some of them while also demanding that the soul society should bring back Urahara back into the soul society so that all the information regarding Hogyoku is extracted from him, helping them understand the situation much better. Senjumaru seeing that Keiko is completely focused on the task like her also approved his actions, both she and Keiko sent a weekly report back to Ichibe regarding the progress.

In the meantime, after Keiko has given out the order to look for soul-sucking bees of bounts in the human world to Arrancar. Arrancar using Hope AI which has already integrated with the human world technology easily found them and reported back that the bounts capable to reproduction has not been taken yet and is moving toward the Karakura Town, Keiko seeing this ordered his Arrancar's to kidnap both the female bount and everyone else which are found to be a bounts with her.

Keiko's thinking was clear, why bother only get the egg when you can get the chicken and later resume the process of chicken make the egg after you are done understanding the chicken completely. Bounts were immortal as long as they are feed souls anyway thus he wasn't worried about the time this is going to take or the development of character it is going to make. Yhwach will return in recovered in the end and attack both the soul society and royal palace in the end anyway.

The tournament was interesting as each captain wanted nothing more than kick Keiko in the ass once, everyone tried their best. Keiko with his ever smiling face smiled, even more, every time someone made some kind of stupid mistake or something. While the tournament was going on Keiko also put in a request to the center 46 regarding the restoration of Sōkyoku if possible, he wanted to understand the process of how the Sōkyoku was made by combining the force of million Zanpakuto's. Kido tournament winner was Byakuya Kuchiki while Hakuda was won by Zaraki, Hoho using Shunpo art went to Yamamoto while Muyari won the all-out fight using different techniques and strategies against his opponents.

Keiko prepared to give out the rewards stood in front of everyone with both hands behind his back looked at the four winners and asked: Do you want to attack me together or one at a time? You all can use all your powers including Bankai.

Yamamoto looked at the smiling monster in front of him and knew this is not as simple as it seems looked at his captain's who also looked at him and nodded all four of them shouted: Bankai except Zaraki who still hadn't unlocked his bankai he simply removed his eye patch thus increasing his power to another level.

Keiko yawn seeing all of this and slowly said: Haki active.

His body without changing color to the naked eyes started shining a little. One after other attacks landed on him, starting with a fully powered attack from Zaraki cutting him in half but the blade failed to even harm the hair on his head next came Byakuya who used his Bankai's billion blades and tried to cut Keiko but the petal's simply bounced off Keiko, Muyari using his bankai released acid directly onto Keiko trying to melt him but Acid just slid off his body not even harming his cloths. Yamamoto controlling his Reiatsu used his entire power and tried to cut Keiko into two half. Keiko under Yamamoto bounced from places to places breaking various walls and such before finally stopping with only a burning slash cutting his cloth with a black mark on his skin.

Keiko with a smile cleaned his clothes while everyone looked at him with O shape and said: Well looks like I haven't been training you all hard enough, only a scratch on me?

Keiko along with everything trained his Haki to the limit and started making different versions Golden was peculiar of Haki which IM had what Keiko did was cast an illusion onto each of them making them believe he was just standing there when he was completely covered in Haki.

Ichigo, Orihime, and Sado decided to join in the journey to soul society along with Urahara and Yoruichi.

All of them were taken straight to the Assembly hall of captain, Yamamoto along with the rest were waiting for them meanwhile Keiko was sleeping in his chair smilingly. Seeing that everyone was here Yamamoto banged on the head of Keiko who was sleeping in the chair next to Yamamoto. Keiko wakes up and yawned and saw Ichigo and others standing in front of him. Keiko seeing Ichigo looked at Zaraki and said: You will refight with this human if you lose the fight then I will kill you.

Ichigo and his party weren't able to understand what was happening when suddenly Zaraki removing his Eye patch attacked Ichigo using Kido art. Urahara and Yoruichi jumped in front to block the attack when Muyari and Sei Feng attacked them and blocked them from protecting Ichigo. Ichigo quickly took his Zanpakuto and tried to dodge the attack and attack back Zaraki when the Kido art tuned back and attacked Ichigo midair leaving him no room to dodge, Ichigo using his fighting instinct used his Zanpakuto's weight turned to the side. Orihime was blocked by Unohana while Sado faced his old opponent Shunsui who didn't injure him just stopped him from helping Ichigo. Zaraki seeing Ichigo moved waved his hand forming another Kido art form ground-based where Ichigo would land and went on the offense, Using his own Zanpakuto, Zaraki deflected Ichigo's Zanpakuto while planting a heavy high concentrated Reiatsu punch on his stomach making Ichigo land on the spot where Kido trap was set up. Keiko seeing this smiled brightly. Finally, the pain taking narcissist was fighting using his head, he remembers in the first fight Zaraki had let Ichigo hit him and injure him.

Keiko didn't stop the fight as he wanted to see if Zaraki can respond to Ichigo's speed in his bankai form.

Ichigo landed, different pikes came from the ground injuring his body from different parts. Seeing that all his allies and friends are being pushed around Ichigo decided to go all in and started concentrating his Reiatsu and screamed: BANKAI

Zaraki seeing the situation looked at Keiko who just watched everything with a smile. Zaraki too smiled like crazy seeing this and concentrated all his powers in a single point to make a protective layer around his body.

Ichigo rushed to Zaraki moving fast behind his back and attacked his arm in hope to injure it, but his blade just deflected from the shoulder he wasn't able to pierce it, Zaraki moved back using Hoho art Keiko have beaten into him with his natural wild instinct turned around fast and cut Ichigo in half. Ichigo using his speed escape in the blink of an eye and start attacking Zaraki from different angles. Zaraki not losing his cool in a fight, maintained his concentration and the Reiatsu around his body moved away from Ichigo and tried to create some distance, Ichigo thinking that this is the limit of Zaraki continued rushing with him, Zaraki seeing this creates various traps around him using the battleground for advantage which Keiko has taught him.

Ichigo rushed into one of the traps injuring himself further, created distance from Zaraki understanding that the back away was also part of a strategy decided to use Getsuga Tenshō.

Seeing this Keiko decides to intervean blocking Getsuga Tensho with just a single figure clade in golden Haki just as it was about to be fired, stopping the motion of the Sword midways.