Wanted: Father by Moonshine79

Summary: Rukia Kuchiki is a mother at sixteen but somehow still an innocent, little virgin. Will a guy be interested to help her out and act as the little toddler's father? Someone needed to fill that empty space in the family picture after all, and perhaps fill that missing spot inside her heart as well.

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"Whaaat?!"

Everyone's screeching voice rose up in the air when the bewildering news suddenly crashed onto every person's ears that were currently present inside the room. No one ever saw this coming, ever. When they thought that all human kind would somehow die by the nearing 2012 to wipe out their entire existence, this announcement seemed more breathtaking than world's destruction from raging Mother Nature. Girls very unsociable like her to be dealing with circumstances like these were next to impossible…. oops my mistake, it is the impossible. Only one question was only being unanswered inside their minds: how on earth did that happen?! Seriously, the girl has beauty and almost every boy in school and in the neighborhood adored her but no one thought she would actually play the game with them. Dear God, they just hope they heard wrong or better, they hope they've gone deaf. Trying their best to swallow hard every word she mouthed through her lips had menaced everyone's minds with each recount of the words playing in their minds. A mother, a baby, at sixteen?! Oh my, looks like the Kurosaki's clinic glass windows might shatter any moment if no one could restrain any of their 'ear bleeding' shrieks anymore. This was undeniably very, very unexpected

"Who the heck knocked you up?!" Ichigo Kurosaki, son of the Kurosaki Clinic owner; Isshin, had outburst his impelling question that hung loosely around his tongue for an eternal minute when Rukia delivered her situation over 20 minutes ago. If not for him, the awkward silence would have dominated all of them for an entire day of trauma, well almost something close to that.

Rukia's childish laugh first claimed itself as her response but soon after, she grinned at him and said, "I'm not pregnant you idiot and most certainly I am not a slut if that's what you've been thinking"

Weird. First she says she has a child but not pregnant and now she can instantly read his mind! Did the woman even belong to heaven? For someone so delicate and petite how can she remain to be solid through whatever situation? Especially with a situation like this! Oh god, Ichigo didn't even want to think how badly he'll have to handle Rukia inside his bedroom with her baby, oh no everyone in school would think he got her pregnant wherein he's even nowhere near from kissing the girl yet! This is bad, so very bad. His image would be ruined, he wouldn't doubt that.

"Whaaat?!"

The screeching was back. Jaws dropped, no one even had urged to shut them up

She just smiled.

"H-how…t-that's…don't play shit with us Rukia! This isn't damn funny!" Ichigo's outburst of frustration had finally left him. He eyed her dangerously demanding more clarification regarding her own position with an....an infant.

"I'm not making anyone laugh right? So I'm damn hell serious about this and I'm not joking, I do have a baby" She reassured one more time. Isshin finally fainted, not even one person bothered themselves on concerning him; all eyes and ears were presently attended to only one person.

"How's that possible Rukia-chan? You can't have a baby if you're not pregnant right?" Yuzu, Ichigo's younger sister asked her curiously

Rukia shifted her head to hers, "That's true Yuzu" she declared happily then continued "but mine is not by being pregnant"

She made everyone's head spin with every possible way she could have or even bare a child, but guessing could no longer be of much help, they badly needed to know! Spit it out already Kuchiki!

"Then, how are you a mother?" Karin, another young sister of Ichigo had asked while she tapped her small feet on the floor. Impatience was clearly read on her young visage

All she could ever do was just smile when she left the room and told them to just wait. Wait? Ichigo's tolerance was thin as a violin's string already, so how did Rukia expect him to wait for five more minutes until she finally answered her own puzzle? He started thinking of what's gonna happen with a baby roaming around the house, surely Rukia would make him change diapers every time it was filled or even do with him/her the baths. Changing diapers of a baby for a shinigami?! Who or what kind of shinigami did that kind of job before?! This was not happening; please just let him wake up from this inevitable nightmare! He will not be treated as a baby sitter! She just shares a room with him after all so eventually she is still under his rules, under his roof. He should learn to be able to turn her down most of the times.

He promised her that he would always be by her side, he promised her an eternity of friendship and undying comfort, but him portraying himself as a nanny of her child would just be too much don't you think? To know Rukia, the woman he somehow developed the deepest feelings for a girl, and for the girl who he would accept a slash of every sword from would now become, dare he say it, a mother. Loosing her virginity seemed unacceptable to him, she should be his first, but when he came from school an hour ago and stormed inside his home hoping to scold her with a litany because she was absent, he was defenselessly attacked with a sudden scare from having a baby. A baby! He should have known better to make his first move.

Thinking about it, probably he fell in love with her long time ago but he never realized about it; for him, Rukia had been, always, his best friend, almost his sister…but at some point that changed. It was ironic how he'd been hearing all her life how lucky he was because his best friend was the prettiest girl in town…but still he only realized about it when he thought he had lost her. He'd never seen a girl in Rukia because of how hard her kicks were; but of course Ichigo knew Rukia was a girl, but he had never looked past that – she was his best friend, period.

With Rukia he could talk about whatever he wanted or needed to talk about because she always listened to him; it wasn't an effort for her though, she was more than pleased to be the shoulder where he could cry on, the owner of the arms that could envelope him making him feel better in no time, the one that always knew what to say for him to feel okay again.

And even though he always thought the feeling was reciprocated, he realized then that nothing was what it seemed.

"Here he is!" a bubbly voice broke the towering of his thoughts

Everyone gasped air when they saw her carrying a baby boy around her arms while it held onto her dress tightly as if it was securing itself that it wouldn't fall. They had to admit that it was the cutest baby they have ever seen their entire life, those cute purple eyes mimicked her own luscious violet orbs along with the dark midnight curls with the same hair color and the shape its face copying hers, came along also with the nose and the lips. Ichigo was about to scoop the lil' boy in his own arms when…oh god! The baby was a spitting image of her! It was her baby with her genes written all over that baby face! How could she tell them she wasn't pregnant if it exactly looked like her! It was no joke. Almost like siblings, no, this was her baby no doubt thinking about that. Ichigo's eyebrows began to twitch, his feet moving backwards; he prayed to God and to all of the saints that were out there, that this baby wouldn't eventually grow up with the outlook of his mother, he wouldn't handle having two Kuchikis in the household. That was like hell!

Up went Rukia's eyebrows when she saw his sudden change of movement, "What's wrong Ichigo?" She saw how his body shook with anxiety and how his legs wriggled

"H-he…" he seemed to be loosing his voice as well, "He looks exactly like you!" He raised a finger to point at her, trembling violently as he took glances over the baby then onto her. His eyes weren't deceiving him at all! This wasn't a nightmare…this was sure hell!

Rukia frowned in disappointment as she positioned the baby more into her arms while it's slender arms hung around her bare neck "Well that wasn't what I expected from you Ichigo, I thought you would be happy for me"

"Happy?!"

She wanted him to be happy for her bearing a child?! Surely, Ichigo was far from happy he was devastated!

"It's so cute Rukia-chan, can I carry it?" Yuzu with all of her excitement, quickly asked permission as she fiddled with his soft hair like Rukai's. She smiled at her and handed the baby carefully until it was safe around Yuzu's assuring arms.

Happiness gleamed at his sister's face while Karin stood beside her, playing peek-a-boo with the baby.

"How can I be happy when you were secretly baring a child without even telling us about it?!" He glared right at her

She scowled back "I told you I wasn't pregnant dimwit; Yoshiro is just an adopted family member of mine"

"Yoshiro?" The name sounded new to him

"Yep. Meet Yoshiro, my son but in reality, he's my cousin in which my relatives from America allowed me to adopt due to financial expenses. It feels great acting like I'm his mother, I always wanted to have a son" She grinned wildly at him while his golden irises still held confusion with unrequited answers.

Why her? He was sure her bloodline was immense and from the numerous cousins she had, why chosen her? It wasn't like she knew how to handle a baby or have any experience nursing one, she didn't even knew how to handle a pillow for kami's sake! Still, it's been a long time since a baby graced its presence inside the Kurosaki premises, maybe…it won't be so bad despite that they'll be managing his clothes, his room, his belongings, the crib and his milk which was of course breastfed, his toys which I'm sure Rukia would nag him to buy, then…what the hell?! Breastfeeding?! Rukia Kuchiki, a well renowned ass kicking fighter and death god will have to breastfeed a baby?! Oh no, Ichigo could never imagine that! He would rather daydream himself wearing a bikini instead of acknowledging the thought of her breastfeeding in his house. His entire face suddenly blushed into a deep crimson on what kind of sight that would be. No, no, no! Don't cloud your head with those kind of thoughts now! However, it was somehow avoidable that more blushes on his face appeared. He just wished he was dead.

Rukia practically got irritated by not even trying to be pleased with her, "Ichigo, I expect a 'Congratulations Rukia!' from you right now" she settled her hands on her waist while still waiting for the greeting she fully expected, but instead she received another scolding yell.

"Oh in your dreams! How are you going to feed the baby? I assume that he isn't even 2 months old yet! Don't tell me you're going to breastfeed it yourself!"

"For kami's sake at least—what?" her sentence was changed when she heard his sudden assumption.

She contemplated for a few minutes about that thought. Breastfeed the baby wouldn't be so hard would it? It would just drink milk from your…er, you know where and she presumed that it wouldn't hurt if a baby did it because it didn't even have any teeth! A task like that should be easier than doing math, right? She has her reasons on why she would have to skip school for a couple of weeks to look after the baby. If she may need any help, Ichigo's sisters will be there anytime to assist her and with the look on their faces right now on how much they appreciate baby Yoshiro being with them seemed to make it a whole less harder for her to even be worrying about those stuff. Ichigo always has her back after all no matter what she was going through, even if it involved having a baby in the house. Piece of cake. Nothing worries her anymore.

"Of course, I wouldn't want the baby to starve after all would I?"

The unwanted response he got from her made his body reflexively fall to the ground

"Idiot, get up"

"Y-you can't breastfeed a baby! You don't even know how to feed the dog right!"

Uh oh. Boiling point.

Her eyes glazed with fiery temper, with no sudden hesitations, she grabbed his collar tightly and their faces met each other's so closely as if they were going to kiss, but the look on Rukia's face showed no affection but pure nuisance gliding through that angelic image. "Look here Kurosaki" her words so stern and rough, "A dog and a baby is not the same, got that? I may not be good in handling animals but when it comes to babies it's a different thing so don't go accusing me that I can't take care of my baby cousin because he's my responsibility now ok? I don't need your discouraging words for me to be handling the job, I could take care of him myself if you please. If your mother fed you, nursed you, bathed you and all those motherly stuff other mothers do, then I can do exactly the same, so shut that piece of hole in your face and get used to it!"

She pushed him away, not minding of his presence anymore nor his father's that still unconsciously laid on the floor. She walked right pass them and exited the room. Storming her way to the halls, she penetrated herself into his room closing the door with a loud 'bang' that was heard all through out the household. Yuzu, who was still carrying baby Yoshiro in his arms, and Karin who stood right beside her just starred at the astounded Ichigo.

Never was he bombarded with so many words coming from her before, still standing motionless with a glint of guilt washing through his face, he could have just followed her and apologized, nonetheless with the shock of the news fresh on his features it seemed impossible to move anymore. Ichigo knew he would definitely have to do something to make it up to her.

And he had to think it fast.

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TO BE CONTINUED…

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