This is the continuation to both Shadows In The Night ( Part 1 ), and Whispers In Your Heart ( Part II ).

Title: Snapshots
Rating: K+
Pairings: Ichigo/Rukia — Ishida/Orihime
Genres: Romance/Humor/Family
AU?: AU timeline, same Bleach universe.
Summary: IchiRuki If you thought their life was nuts, then follow the lives of their children. Four boys, two girls, two Shinigami parents, and a lot of love follows this crazy family through big bugs, crushes, school, and playground disasters.

Disclaimer: I do not own Bleach! Thanks to CrystalRaindrop007 for beta'ing!

Kids Name's and Age's:

M — Male, F — Female

Michio(M) — 11
Raye(F) — 11
Anyame(F) — 7
Kaname(M) — 5
Yuki(M) — 3
Sanyu(M) — 1


What are little boys made of?
Why, sticks and snails,
And puppy dogs' tails.
That's what little boys are made of...


Snapshots — I

June 26th, 2015 — 2:12 PM

"Moooommy! There's something moving in ma head!"

Loud crying followed black, spiky hair and bright violet eyes through the halls of the loud, but comfortable Kurosaki home. As soon as little, sock clad feet screeched to a stop in front of the young woman in the kitchen, the crying continued.

"Mommy! Mommy! Moooommy!"

Kurosaki Rukia bent down in front of the young boy and smiled softly. "What's wrong, Yuki?" she asked, ruffling the hair of her little, three-year-old son. The little boy was bouncing up and down, his arms waving frantically in the air and his violet eyes wide.

"Mooommy! There's something moving in ma head!"

Rukia almost began laughing, but decided she needed to find out if his brain had become self-aware before she did. Her violet eyes were twinlking as she brushed raven hair out of her eyes. Her small frame was nearly shaking with contained laughter as she brushed Yuki's hair back.

"Yuki, calm down a little bit, all right? Explain, please."

"I was playin' with Sanyu an' something flew in my ear and now something's moving in ma head!"

The little boy was totally freaking out. He was beginning to cry, and Rukia gently picked him up in her arms. She sat him on the counter and grabbed a flashlight out of the kitchen drawer. Shining it in Yuki's ear, she frowned, realizing exactly what was wrong.

"There's a bug in your ear, sweetie. We're going to go to the doctor, and the nice man is going to get it out, all right?"

"I want mommy to get it out!"

Rukia sighed, looked at the clock, and realized that it was about time for the kids to get home from school, so she couldn't leave for at least five more minutes. Yuki was frantic, and he was crying hard.

"Look, Yuki. We can't go to the doctor for about ten minutes, so I need you to calm down a little, all right? The bug can't possibly hurt you. Here, let me call daddy, and you can talk to him."

Since she knew that talking to his daddy would calm him down, Rukia picked up the phone and punched in Ichigo's cell number. After he picked up, she hurriedly told him what had happened, and handed the phone to Yuki, who was wiping his tears on his shirt.

"Daddy?"

She picked him up and placed him on the couch while she ran into the other room to grab Sanyu. When she found him, he was chewing on his blankey. She smiled, saying, "Hey, little man. How are we today?"

Sanyu looked up at Rukia and grinned, his bright amber eyes glowing, and held out his chubby little hands.

"Mama!"

She took him into her arms and smiled, pushing down his orange hair as she laid him on the changing table. After quickly changing his diaper and dressing him in a pair of dark jean overalls, she quickly put a pair of socks on his tiny, baby feet and grabbed his diaper bag. When she went back into the living room, Yuki was still on the phone with Ichigo. His tears were dried, but his face was bright red.

"I gots a bug in ma ear, daddy. Mommy's gonna make the doctor man get it out," he said. "Can I tell ma friend?"

Ichigo said something on the other end that made Yuki laugh, and as Rukia placed the baby down by his brother, she ran to the door as the school bus pulled up. She walked outside to see two of her four school-age children. Michio was holding Kaname's hand, and Kaname was bouncing along happily, holding the picture he'd drawn in his Kindergarten class.

"Hi, mom!" Michio greeted, smiling, as he walked inside the house. "Anyame and Raye are already and grandpa's. He picked 'em up at school.

Rukia smiled back and kissed him on the cheek before saying, "Hello, Michio. That's good; I won't need to drop them off. Now, I need you and Kaname to put your backpacks down and get in the car. Yuki needs to go to the doctor. Come on, hurry."

Soon, all four boys were packed into the car. Sanyu was sleeping in his carseat and Yuki was still talking on the phone. Before they drove away, however, Rukia took the cell from her little son and stuck it up to her ear.

"Hey, Ichigo. We're leaving now, and we're going to lose cell reception. I'll call you from the doctor's."

"All right. Is he gonna be OK, Rukia?" asked a worried Ichigo. Rukia laughed; he honestly worried far too much.

"He's going to be just fine. Now get back to work. I love you."

"Love you, too. Bye."

She hung up the cell and seated Yuki in the front seat, quickly buckling him and making sure that Michio and Kaname were safe in the backseat. Then, she went about sixty-five miles per hour to the doctor's office. It was about half an hour away, and Yuki began crying about ten minutes into the trip.

"Mommy! Mommy, it's movin' again! Make it stop, make it stop!"

Rukia honestly didn't know what to do. Sure, she'd dealt with broken arms, bloody noses, and scraped knees before, but this was totally different. Her tiny son had a bug stuck in his ear, and it wouldn't stop moving. He was scared and crying, and she couldn't comfort him because she had to drive.

Biting her lip, she reached over and took Yuki's hand into hers.

"Hey, sweetie, I can't do anything about the bug, but the doctor man can. He's going to get it out for you, all right? But you have to be brave until we get there. Can you be brave, baby?"

She took her eyes off of the road only for a second at a time to look at Yuki, but when she caught his eye, he nodded, wiping his tears away with a shaky hand as he said,

"Yeah. I can be bwave, mommy."

She smiled and ruffled his hair.

"That's my boy."

He grinned, but his grin fell soon. Rukia could guess that the bug was moving, and apparently, so could Kaname.

"Yuki gots a bug in his ear!" Kaname said, giggling as he wiggled in his seat beside his baby brother, who had woken up and was now crying in his carseat. "A bug, a bug, a bug!"

Michio was trying not to laugh as he reached over and punched Kaname lightly on the head. The younger boy reached up and put his hand over the sore spot as he stuck out his bottom lip and pouted.

"Whatcha do that for, Michi!?"

"Stuff it. Yuki's scared enough without you poking at him."

Kaname continued to pout, but mumbled, "Sorry, Yuki."

"S'ok!" he replied, his voice shaking a little as he swung his feet back and forth in the front seat.

"Hmmm..." Kaname pondered, his chin in his hands as he stared forward. "I wonder what kind of bug it is."

"Probably a fly," Rukia said quickly, hoping that it would be the end of the conversation. But apparently, it was a topic that interested Michio, so he joined in.

"Could be a mosquito."

"Or a puppy!"

"Kaname, that's not a bug."

"Oh. Then maybe a... a... a.. maybe it's a trojan horse fly!"

"What's a trojan horse fly?"

"I dunno, Michi, but someone in school was talkin' about it."

"Oooh... I wonder if it's big..." Michio said curiously, leaning over his seat to try and look into Yuki's ear. Rukia flicked him softly on the head, and he leaned back.

"Probably. It might be huge!" Kaname added.

"As big as a horse!"

At this point, Yuki had begun to cry loudly again and both boys knew it was time to shut up. Of course, Rukia's glare might have helped them come to that conclusion. But Sanyu, who had been crying up until this point, felt the intense need to add something to the conversation, so he began to chant "Bug, bug, bug!" over and over happily as he bounced his little, diapered butt up and down in his carseat.

And Rukia, poor, poor Rukia, who was trying desperately to concentrate on driving, was about to lose her mind.

Usually, she had her two girls in the car to tone out some of the boy's noise, but this time, she had Sanyu screeching, Yuki crying, and Kaname and Michio debating on how huge the bug in Yuki's ear was.

"At least five inches."

"No, a foot long!"

"As big as meee!" Kaname giggled.

Finally, finally, they arrived at the doctor's office, and Rukia lined up the boys. She put Sanyu in Michio's arms, and had both him and Kaname march silently into the office while she picked Yuki out of the car.

"Sit," she ordered. They followed her command and dropped quietly into the squishy seats in the office while Rukia walked up to the front desk. By this time, Yuki was twisting his ear with his fingers as he bit his lip and tried not to cry.

"Mooommy, it's movin' again..."

Rukia smiled and kissed him on the forehead.

"I know sweetie, but just be brave a little bit longer, all right?"

He nodded, and the man at the desk finally looked up.

"Ah, Mrs. Kurosaki. What can I help you with today?"

Rukia smirked. They were in the office so often that the man knew them all by name. All in the last month, she'd been in for a pregnancy test—which had been negative, thank God—Michio and Raye had been in for sports physicals before they were allowed to play on their school soccer team, Sanyu had been in for his routine baby check-up, Kaname, Anyame and Raye had all been in for Chicken Pox and Sanyu and Michio had come down with the flu only a week and half before.

"My son has a bug stuck in his ear. Can you please get it out?"

The man, who's name tag read "Ryu", laughed softly as he quickly checked the schedule.

"Yeah, actually. We just had a cancellation. I can get you in right away."

Rukia breathed a sigh of relief as Yuki began to whimper again.

"Thank goodness."

Ryu laughed. "I know the feeling, I have three of my own at home. Anyway, for the moment, please take a seat, and say "hi" to Michio and Kaname for me."

Rukia nodded, then walked over to where her three boys were, for once in their life, sitting absolutely still and silent.

"Momma, can they get the bug out, or is it gonna be stuck in Yuki's ear forever and ever?" Kaname asked curiously. His question only made Yuki whimper more, and Rukia answered quickly,

"No, no! They're getting it out right away. He's going to be just fine." She smiled and wiped his sweaty hair out of his eyes as he curled his tiny body in her arms more.

"Mommy..."

Rukia hugged him close and began to hum a little. The tiny boy closed his eyes sleepily, and several of the mothers in the office smiled at Rukia. One of them moved closer and asked curiously,

"Are you sure you're old enough to have four kids?"

"Oh," Rukia said, smiling, "I have six. My girls are at their grandfather's for the weekend."

"Oh, God," the woman said, a horror-striken look on her face. "Six? I can barely deal with my two! And how can you be so thin after six pregnancies?"

Rukia laughed. "Well, my boys are good boys," she said, smiling at Kaname and Michio. "They help out. One of my pregnancies was twins, so only five. And I'm only twenty-nine. Who knows? My husband is set on breaking the world record of children in one household, it seems, and we might end up having ten more."

The woman laughed, and Rukia was about to add something else to the conversation when the doctor came up and called for Kurosaki.

"Well, I have to go. It was nice meeting you, though. Michio, Kaname!"

They jumped up and followed single file behind her into the back office. They knew when they were in public, they had to obey or they would be in huge trouble. She let them be monsters at home, but when they were in public, they had to be angels.

The doctor took Yuki from Rukia's arms and sat him on the table. After quickly pulling up his chart, he turned to look at Rukia.

"Hi, I'm the new doctor here. Um... what's your relation to these children? Are you their sister?"

Rukia sighed and rolled her eyes. Just because she was a little woman she was always questioned about being a mother.

"No, these are my kids. Michio, Kaname, this is Yuki with a bug in his ear, and then my baby is Sanyu."

"Oh..." The doctor still looked doubtful, but shrugged. "A bug, you say? Well, let's see what we can do."

After a fair amount of Yuki whimpering and a lot of digging in his ear, the doctor finally pulled the bug out. It was a small fly, and Yuki immediately chirped,

"Can I keep it, mommy?"

▫ End ▫


And thus concludes the insane first story involving the family of Kurosaki. Hope you liked it! I will be adding more, but this is just going to be a one-shot collection. The stories might have an order to them, and they might not. Most likely, not. Random snippits in the the life of the large and insane Kurosaki family.

Next update: Who do you want to see as the man character next? Michio, Raye, Anyame, Kaname, Yuki, or Sanyu? Give me ideas!

Oh! And this story idea came from CrystalRaindrop. She got a bug stuck in her ear, and I kind of borrowed the idea.

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