Story info
The only disclaimer I'm gonna give ya; I don't own Bleach. There, happy now?
This is a sequel to my ByaOC fic 'The Best Kept Secret of Seireitei', but you don't have to read that one if you don't want. New readers will cope just fine as this isn't actually revolving around my OC from that fic. If you want more info on Kya and Byakuya's relationship give it a go.
Here's a quick summary if you haven't read BKSoS. Years before Byakuya met Hisana he was dating this girl called Kya, but then she ran off for certain reasons. After all the business with Aizen she came back and they got back together. Easy. There were hints at other characters' relationships but nothing had really happened, for example ShunNan, IchiRuki, ZaraUno, YuroHara, etc.
This is gonna be set quite a way off in the future, revolving around Kya and Byakuya's eldest kid, meaning some of these relationships may have developed somewhat in our absence. We'll just have to wait and see what's exactly happened with them.
We're ignoring anything beyond the final Arrancar arc of the manga, since it hadn't started at time of story-conception and has yet to finish, so possible character write-outs, etc., are unknown.
This is a Hitsugaya story for those who didn't bother to even read the summary, but since it's in the future he's all grown up. No paedophilia thank you very much. Aww, little Shiro-chan has become a man!
This first chap's really just a little tidbit for those who read BKSoS as it ties the two fics together. If you didn't read it feel free to skip to the next one.
Anyways yeah. Think that's it.
Now read!
Chapter 1: Her downfall
To say that Kya was surprised at Unohana's diagnosis would have been the understatement of the millennia.
At first she had laughed, believing Unohana was playing some kind of cruel joke on her. Then, upon realising Unohana was being serious, she insisted she must have got the test results mixed up.
Then she had started yelling.
This all started a few days back when, extremely inconveniently, she had vomited loudly right in the middle of a top secret, whisper quiet tracking mission. Needless to say, she had been forced to abort the plan – a little messily it must be said – and returned to Seireitei more than a little grumpy. And that would have been that, if it hadn't been for the fact that every morning since then she had woken up and ran straight for the bathroom to throw up. Kya thought it was probably just a stomach bug or something. Byakuya wasn't having any of that. On the fifth morning this happened he had picked her struggling form right off her chair and literally carried her the entire way to the fourth division.
What they had told her there did not go down so well.
The door to Byakuya's office slammed open.
"You big fat lump of rabbit's intestines! Do you know what you've done to me?"
Byakuya put down his writing brush calmly and turned to a shocked-looking Renji. "Out."
"But- err-" Renji floundered.
"Now." He reiterated in his most commanding tone. Renji promptly scarpered. Byakuya turned back to the irate woman standing in the doorway with a look of absolute panic on her face. A very slight frown crossed his expression. "What's wrong?"
The woman swiftly crossed the room and thumped her palms down onto his desk, glaring at him with the craziest eyes he had seen in a while. "I'm… pregnant!"
Byakuya paused. Then, very slowly, he looked down, picked up his writing brush, and continued filling in the form in front of him. "Ok."
That was not the response Kya was hoping for.
"What?" she screamed at the top of her lungs. "What do you mean 'ok'? Have you even been listening? Or maybe I should have added that you're the father just so we're both clear on the matter?"
"I never doubted that for a second." He said serenely while continuing with his ever so important paper work.
"Then how the hell can you be so calm? I thought you hated the idea of kids?" she shouted.
"I have changed my mind."
"No you bloody haven't! You're not allowed to change your mind on these sorts of things without telling me first! Now this is your fault, you sort it out!"
Byakuya sighed and put down his writing brush, finally agreeing to actually look her in the eyes. "Kya, you are being a little ridiculous."
"Oh, am I? Am I really?"
"Yes."
Kya let out a sound half way between a moan and a growl, slumped down into the chair facing Byakuya, and smacked her head onto the table. She felt a soft hand on her chin as he gently lifted her head to face him. There was a tenderness in his eyes amidst the otherwise blank expression.
"Kya," his voice was quiet, "are you not at least a tiny bit happy about this?"
"No. Yes. Maybe. I don't know." She admitted. "I just… I just don't want to be stuck here."
"It is not just about you anymore."
"Gah. Don't I know it? Now there's a bloody kid involved." Our kid, she reminded herself. God, she really wasn't mother material. When, over the past twenty years, had Byakuya decided that he was father material? But then again, it was their kid. And she was going to be a mom. That sounded so wrong. But she couldn't help the little twitch of a smile as she thought about it.
"This is so messed up." She muttered to herself.
"When isn't it?"
Kya let out a little laugh. She looked at Byakuya. "Thank you."
He smiled back. "You're welcome."
Kya got to her feet and chuckled as she made her way back to the door. Wow. She and Byakuya were going to be parents. That was… intense? Oh, Christ, she was going to get fat, wasn't she?
"Kya." She paused with her hand on the doorknob and turned back to her lover. Byakuya was busy with his paperwork again, but there was a steely, determined edge to his voice. "You will not set foot outside Seireitei's walls while you are carrying our child."
Kya blinked. It took her all of two seconds to realise what Byakuya had just said. Or maybe ordered was a better word for it. When she had realised all hell broke loose.
"You-"
Matsumoto had reacted in the exact way that Kya thought she would. First there was shock, then there was the yelling, then there was the overjoyed squeals at the prospect of having a little kiddy around whom she wasn't responsible for. Kya thought this was a much more proper way of reacting than just saying 'Ok'. Who reacts like that when being told they were going to be a father? And Matsumoto was ecstatic about the idea of being godmother. Byakuya wasn't when Kya told him later.
Seven and a half months later Kya gave birth to a little baby girl, whom they named Arikka. Everyone, excluding a few of the older heads of the noble houses, agreed that, even though her parents weren't technically married, she would be raised as if they were, and therefore a part of the Kuchiki clan.
It had taken Kya a considerable amount of time to get used to the idea of staying in Soul Society, let alone Seireitei itself, but had eventually conceded after nearly getting herself and the six month old foetus in her belly killed. Byakuya had not been happy about that. She found over the passing years that it was gradually getting easier and easier to stay away from the danger and keep herself nice and safe behind Seireitei's walls. Yes, she still sometimes got bored, but most of the boredom was driven off by Arikka. Now she had a proper reason to stay, and she wasn't going to let it go.
Sure, she wasn't the best mum in the world – what with the hyperactivity and the attitude of 'Oh, let her have some fun. She's a teenager. All teenagers stay out all night and come home at eight in the morning drunk off their asses.' But then again Byakuya wasn't the greatest dad in the world. He was still emotionally broken and had the attitude of 'No, you cannot go out passed eight. Especially with a boy. Go upstairs and change; I can see your ankles.' And yet somehow together they managed to form one almost acceptable parent.
It worked, in their own little way.
What d'ya think so far? Ok, you won't actually have a proper opinion on the story until the next one, since this was focused on Kya again. All the others will actually focus on Arikka. Kya and Bya will become background characters. Aww, I miss Kya. She was fun.
And remember…
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