Bleach 459

So it turns out that Tsukishima stabbed Ginjo at the beginning to make him believe that Tsukishima was his enemy, go figure. So then the evil bastard takes Ichigo's shinigami badge, makes an evil one-liner then exits stage right. That is, until Urahara and Isshin show up and Ichigo gets a sword to the chest... except that it's Rukia's. @_@ Anyhow Ichigo's got his powers back and his new shinigami form looks absolutely sick. Can't wait for him to kick Ginjo and Tsukishima to the curb next chapter. ^^

First off Rukia somehow looks even better and looks like she a Lieutenant now.

2nd I guess that means she lost her powers AGAIN or thats a different sword because she still had another sword on her.

3rd I think that means Ichigo is going to have to get his shiki and Bankai back again and they will be different.

The badge on her arm is from Ukitake's squad, the 13th. Significant and fitting, in a way; The last lieutenant was Kaien, that guy who was taken over by a hollow. Surprising, since I never thought Byakuya would let Rukia be a lieutenant...but I guess after all the hub bub in Mexico, he let the brakes off a bit.

And that 'sword' Ichigo was stabbed with, it wasn't Rukia's. I think it was some kind of condensed reiatsu sword, since it was glowing the entire time.

And yeah, Ichigo is probably back at square one. It's up in the air for me on if it'll be Zangetsu and Hichigo again, or if it'll be a new Zanpakuto all together.

My guess is that it was just Isshin giving up his powers there, since he was the one carrying it around for so long, and Urahara had him put in some of his own reiatsu earlier on, looks like his fullbring and zanpakuto are combined or something since that sword looked like a cross between Zangetsu and the new fullbring sword he had earlier.

And yeah, Rukia actually looks pretty hot now for some reason, who woulda thought a new hairdo would change so much xD

For a second I actually thought that it was Hanataro from 4th division. The new haircut is ok, but I did like the old one a lot.

Five bucks says we have a flashback about Rukia and everyone else soon.

Kubo needs to buy time to come up with more storyline doesn't he? So that would be a terrible bet for anyone to take as your opposite.