Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-8986886-20130527230941

I have a feeling that Kensei wants to nominate Shūhei for the Captain's position, currently vacant in the 8th division.

He's clearly pressing Hisagi to reach Bankai in the last chapter and since Kensei already has Mashiro as a Lieutenant, Shūhei is kind of a free agent at the moment.

In fact it might have been a request/order by Shunsui who; since he became Head-Captain probably feels somewhat guilty over having stripped his old squad of both its Captain and Lieutenant. 