"Ichigo, do you think we're ready for a baby?" Toshiro asked, nervously, while running his hands through Ichigo's bright orange hair. "I know we are! Plus, you've even said that it feels empty with just the two of us." replied the strawberry, relaxed by his snowy husband's touch.
"Well, even if we decided to have a baby, neither of us can carry it, and I don't feel like adoption will fill the emptiness we both have been feeling," concerned, Toshiro got up off of his husband's lap, headed to the kitchen to make some tea to help him think. When he returned, he noticed Ichigo on his phone, clearly typing something. "Reminiscing about college, love?" The silverette asked, jokingly.
"I'm asking a couple of friends whom I've known for a long time for some help about this. I've already got a volunteer. I think we should schedule a time around our work schedules to meet with her." Ichigo said, with a smile that made Toshiro concerned that this would be someone who would be overly talkative and noisy, two things that he was hesitant to be around. "What's her name?" he questioned, sipping his tea. "It's Tatsuki Arisawa, a childhood friend of mine, she's like a sister." The overly excited strawberry exclaimed.
After about a week, they finally met up with Tatsuki, one of them ecstatic, the other being super shy. Tatsuki was very friendly and obviously protective of Ichigo, given that she saw one of the marks on his shoulder that looked fresh. "Ichigo, what happened to your arm?! Are you hurt? Did your husband do this to you?" she fretted.
"No, I'm not hurt, yes my husband did it, it's just a normal hickey, Tatsuki, calm down." Ichigo said calmly. "Oh, speaking of my husband, you haven't had the chance to meet him yet! 'Shiro, this is Tatsuki, the friend I mentioned. Tatsuki, this is my husband, Toshiro." The silverette gave a weak, obviously shy smile, while Tatsuki gave her famous 'If you hurt Ichigo I will hunt you down' smiles that made Toshiro even more nervous.
"So, Tatsuki, Ichigo mentioned that you wanted to carry a child for us?" Toshiro questioned, staying to the point of their meet-up. She smiled, "Of course! Anything for the one I protected during our childhood when he got bullied. I made a promise to his late mother that I would make sure he was never sad as long as I could help it." Ichigo blushed at her reply, knowing full well that Toshiro was impressed that Ichigo was bullied, given how nice he always seemed to be.
After their conversation, they agreed to make an appointment to get some eggs fertilized and implanted into Tatsuki so that soon they would finally have a real family in their home. As the date of the appointment grew closer, the more Toshiro grew impatient to be a father, even though he is only 21, and Ichigo is 26.
The big day came sooner than Ichigo was ready for, as he overslept, by twenty minutes, and they barely picked up Tatsuki in time for the operation. The doctors made a mixture of sperm from both males, and then implanted the solution into Tatsuki. After about a month, they went in to check if the procedure worked, and noticed there were twins!
"Oh my gosh! Shiro, we need to get a couple cribs soon!" Cried the strawberry, clearly tearing up. "But we don't know if they're both boys, girls, or one of each." sighed Toshiro. Tatsuki noticed that Toshiro was the rational one in their marriage, after he said that.
The three of them returned to the Kurosaki/Hitsugaya house to plan out telling the rest of their friends. Tatsuki was distraught over the fact that she wanted to keep it a secret from her friend Orihime, but knew that word spreads fast in Karakura, so one way or another, she would find out.