Byakuya lay in the bed holding the small infant. He had Aizen's brown hair and Byakuya's grey eyes that were looking up at him. "You are so beautiful," he whispered stroking the head of his newborn son.

"Have you made your decision yet?" asked Aizen sitting down next to him. He looked around the large room in Los Noches he had stayed in for the last five months since his pregnancy had started being obvious. He sighed sadly as he looked down at the little baby boy that he had fallen in love with in just a few short hours.

"I...don't know," he murmured.

"If you don't decide soon, I will make the choice for you," Aizen whispered in his ear coldly. Byakuya shivered unwillingly as the cold eyes stared at him.

Byakuya shook his head, "I have to go back," he admitted quietly.

"Then I will make sure it is painless." Before Byakuya could ask what he meant Aizen had walked out of the room. When he returned he was followed in by Ulquiorra who walked over to him. "Naoki will be fine, Ulquiorra will take care of him," Aizen explained.

"No! I will not leave my son..." before he could finish a bright light flashed in front of his eyes.

"Byakuya I promised this would be painless," Aizen whispered as he caressed the unconscious pale lord.

5 years later...

Ulquiorra ran down the hall towards the throne room. Lord Aizen had given him the command to protect the hogyoku from the soul reapers no matter what. He stopped for a moment as the building shook and pieces of roof fell around him. It was starting to look like they weren't going to win this fight but he couldn't let his Lord down.

"Daddy!" screamed a small boy running towards him. "What's going on daddy?" he wailed hiding his face in Ulquiorra's robes.

"Naoki, it will be fine, I promise," he whispered picking him up and running the rest of the way to where the hogyoku lay hidden.

"Daddy!" Before Ulquiorra could react he felt like a thousand needles were piercing his back. He shoved Naoki behind the only cover he could before turning to see who had attacked him. Suddenly a new wave threw him into the air tearing at his clothes and skin until he could no longer feel any of his limbs. He was surprised at how beautiful the attack was...the pink petals swirled around him in a deadly design. How ironic it would be that he would die this way after living an entire life in the bleak Hueco Mundo.

Suddenly his body dropped against the cold floor and he could see the soul reaper that was going to kill him. "Stop!" Byakuya stopped in surprise as he saw a small child run to block the way to the espada. "Don't hurt daddy!" he sobbed.

"Get out of here," Ulquiorra growled trying to sit up. "Run Naoki!" Naoki shook his head as he glared up at the soul reaper. He was not going to leave.

Byakuya was surprised, the child wasn't an arrancar, he had the energy of a soul reaper but then what was he doing in Hueco Mundo calling an espada "daddy"? "Who are you?" he asked putting his hand on the child's head. The kid jumped back as if Byakuya had attacked him with kido.

"Leave him alone!" Ulquiorra rasped trying to sit up but his arm gave out. Nothing in this situation made sense to Byakuya and he wanted answers.

"Surrender!" he commanded pointing his blade right underneath the espada's chin.

"And why the hell would I do that?" he growled.

"If you don't I will be forced to kill you," he said simply. Ulquiorra growled, he did not like being shoved into a corner like this but he had no choice. He had to protect Naoki from this man. Before he could say anything his swimming vision became blackness as he fell to the ground.

"Daddy!" Naoki screamed running to Ulquiorra's side as he fell. "Daddy wake up!"

"Come on, I can take him somewhere to get better," Byakuya offered walking to the boy's side.

"No! Leave my daddy alone!" he begged still trying to protect his father.

"Hey, Captain you in here?" yelled Renji running into the room. He stopped surprised at the scene that was playing out in front of him. One of the espada had been defeated, a kid was trying to protect him, and his cold captain was trying to comfort the kid. That had not been something he expected to see.

As soon as Naoki saw another soul reaper run into the room he became hysteric. Byakuya sighed, he knew there was no way he was going to calm down the kid and get answers if they stayed here. "Sorry about this," he whispered before casting a sleeping kido on the child.

As soon as Byakuya's hand touched his forehead Naoki's eyes fell closed and he fell into the captain's waiting arms. "What happened here?" asked Renji slowly walking up to his captain.

"I'll explain later, we need to get both of them back to the soul society. If we don't the cuatro might die." Renji raised an eyebrow quizzically, last time he checked an espada dying wasn't a bad thing. He just shrugged as he picked up the unconscious espada and followed his captain as they headed back to the spirit world.

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Unohana was surprised to see captain Kuchiki walking into the fourth division with an espada and a small child that seemed like a soul reaper. "I need him to survive, he has to answer some questions," Byakuya said in way of explanation. She nodded and got to work healing, she knew when the time was better she would get a better explanation.

She slowly let her healing reiatsu cover the beaten body. She could feel the wounds slowly starting to heal but stopped in surprise when she felt the response of reiatsu come back at her. That was not something that she had expected.

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Byakuya walked towards his house after the captain's meeting. From what he had heard they had successfully gotten rid of the three captains that had betrayed the soul society and most of the espada had fallen with them. He hadn't really explained to Captain Yamamoto about Ulquiorra or the child. He would have to do that in private when the other captains wouldn't make the situation worse.

He smiled when he saw Abari walking towards him. "How was the captain's meeting?" he asked falling in step with his captain.

"Boring, they said what I already knew," he sighed waving it off. "What were you doing while I was busy?" he asked turning to his lieutenant that had been his lover for the last five years.

"I was talking to Ichigo, turns out that Grimmjow was also captured alive but Orihime healed him so he is awaiting judgement in the cells."

"Why would this matter to me?" Byakuya asked turning to look at Abarai.

"I don't know, but he keeps asking about Ulquiorra. Maybe he has some of the answers that Ulquiorra can't answer right now..." he shrugged. "Maybe he could even help with the kid when he wakes up. I mean he was hysteric with just the two us near, I wonder how he'll act when he realizes he is surrounded by them."

Byakuya hadn't thought of that. The child would freak out and that was the last thing he wanted. "Maybe we should wait to wake him up until Ulquiorra has been healed by Unohana

This is my new bleach fanfic I hope everybody likes it, R&R would be deeply appreciated!