Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-28539895-20160530022425/@comment-26091912-20160530123953

1. Because three of those people were the only ones that were critically injured and would have died if they didn't receive urgent medical treatment which only Tenjiro could provide. 2. Ichigo's Bankai was broken, so he had to go to the Soul Palace to get it repaired. 3. When your job is protecting the Seireitei which just got decimated by an enemy you know nothing about, and you just lost your most powerful combatant/leader, it's probably not a good idea for some captains who are its most vital defenders to abandon their post and leave it unprotected.