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Here will be my theories. Yachiru is infact not a shinigami and is carrying an Asauchi that isn't really a zanpakto yet. In several movies she is seen attacking without releasing her shikai but still summoning things that attack, a pink demon like face and a cat are amongst these. If she has the power to summon imaginary friends like the ones in her "Shikai" naturally, it might not be a shikai. Further evidence to suggest this is " According to Isane Kotetsu, a Shikai that manifests its power within creatures while the blade itself remains unchanged, such as Sanpo Kenjū, is unheard of." After seeing that Kenpachi is infact a shinigami and uses his shikai she may have realized she is the only one of her kind and left Seireitei, leaving behind her badge and shinigami clothing.

Yachiru is a shinigami for this theory and uses her zanpakto's imaginary friends to make her invisible and carry her cookie-infested body away, however since neither of them are designed with wearing armor or clothing in mind, they are only able to turn her flesh and body aswell as her zanpakto invisible and she is forced to leave the rest behind, entrusting Kenpachi to take care of it. -scratch this theory, it's totally impossible since in page 574 his cookie ability is broken on her, on that note, she was supposed to be having her arm healed... on that note what the fuck is this... kenpachi "I can still feel kotetsu's reiatsu. He's probably still alive. Get your ass down there and get that arm fixed up." except if kotetsu is the he that is probably still alive which would explain why kenpachi can feel their reiatsu that doesn't make any sense because the two Kotetsu's isane and kiyone are sisters... there would be no he there and the only he that should be present near Kotetsu is the old man that "imagination station" claimed he created and then destroyed. Which on that note if imagination station didn't create but did destroy it then that person may or may not re-exist which would create a he. Although if that's true then the other people that he killed and was sitting on when he was introduced are also alive again, and those were two hes aswell if i recall correctly... god this manga is about as thorough at explaining things as the response "Just Because"

Yachiru is abducted by one of the enemies as Kenpachi's only weakness... I refuses to lower myself to explain her lack of clothing in this theory. As I really don't think this should be in bleach.

the other theory i like is the transformation like Yoruichi has. It would be a nice turn of events, but i think it is even less likely than the first theory that i have posted, which was so farfetch'd i should carry around a leek.

Oh also how about this one, Imagination Stations powers have been shown to extend into another person perception, Yachiru collapses due to her thoughts that if her bones were cookies they couldn't support her weight. What if - not as a shikai or bankai ability - Yachiru was someones imagination and was in the vicinity when Imagination Station says he is going to imagine a world where there is no imagination. even if she wasn't in range and Kenpachi was it wouldn't rule out that she may be Kenpachi's imagination, however it doesn't explain her powers nor does it explain her reiatsu being unique to her.