Like I said in the summary, English isn't my first language, so sorry if my English isn't perfect. Oh yeah, I almost forgot. I DON'T OWN ANYTHING BESIDE MY OC'S.

Chapter 1: How it began

I knew from the day that I met him, there was going to be trouble ahead but I never knew that I would actually love him. I didn't say to my aunt that he was a Shinigami, she wouldn't have like the idea. He knew that I was a Quincy and I knew that he was a Shinigami, it was really bizarre at the beginning but he stayed to the real world for me. He told me that he left his family, his rank and his life back there just to be with me. I was so happy! We got married not so long after; there was Ryu-chan, Kisuke, Yoru-chan, Tessai and Kanae-chan but my aunt didn't come because she didn't approve of my now husband. Isshin took my last name because he said that he didn't want any Shinigami barging into his life with me. Ryu-chan and Isshin became great friends, which made me really happy because I didn't want to lose my only cousin.

Today, Ryu-chan and Kanae-chan came to visit us in our little clinic that Isshin made. He got to school to become a doctor and he finished just recently, we installed a clinic in my hometown and we live upstairs the clinic. From time to time, Yoru-chan comes to sleep home and I like it because sometime I feel lonely when Isshin is in the clinic working and doesn't need help from me. Ryu-chan was learning to become the best medic in the town and my aunt died not so long ago, which made Ryu-chan a little grumpier than usual. I'm getting off topic! I was telling before that Ryu-chan and Kanae-chan came to visit Isshin and me, so I made a feast for the four of us.

The two of them took a chair and Isshin and I did the same, we talked of about everything and finally Ryu-chan told us good news. He first looked at Kanae-chan and she nodded at him, then Ryu-chan told us that they were getting married and that he was going to become a medic at the Karakura Hospital. Isshin congratulated the two lovers and I congratulated them as well with all my heart. I loved Ryu-chan like a brother and I always wanted Kanae-chan to be a part of our family and now my dream came true. I never saw Ryu-chan happier than at his wedding, there was Oncle Soken, Ryu-chan's father, Isshin and me. It was a small wedding but a good wedding nonetheless.

Not so long after their wedding, maybe a month or two, they told us that they were going to have a baby and that made me think if I wanted a child in my life. I talked about it with Isshin and was surprised to hear that he was ready to build our family of our own. We tried many times to get me pregnant but we were unsuccessful, we saw the growing tummy of Kanae-chan and we were so fired up to have our baby that we did it almost every day. Finally after almost two month of this routine, we were successful and I got pregnant! The belly of Kanae-chan was already so big, we knew she would give birth soon enough and we waited anxiously to meet the new Ishida of the family. My predictions were right because a month or so after I got pregnant, Kanae-chan gave birth to her beautiful son. They named him Uryu and Isshin and I cooed over him so looong! He was so cute, Kanae-chan named me and Isshin to be his goparents, it made us happy that they had this much trust in us, even if Isshin was a Shinigami because they didn't like Kisuke, Tessai and Yoru-chan. It was a real wonder why they accepted Isshin and not them too… maybe it was because they were a little crazy… but I'm not sure.

Anyway, I knew that the two of them, Kisuke and Yoru-chan, liked each other very other very much. I wondered why they weren't together after spending so much time together, I knew that Yoru-chan might love Kisuke but I never got the chance to confront her, even if she was my best friend. So I decided to ask her the next time she would come back home alone.

She came today and I decided to confront her as soon as Isshin was going to work at the clinic. I knew that she came to ask me something by the look of her face, so I waited until she told me what troubled her before confronting her with her feelings. I waited and waited and waited and waited, until I got bored of her not saying anything and asked her directly. "Yoru-chan, is something wrong?" I asked. She looked at me and she said to me while blushing furiously. "I… I think I'm pregnant…" She said. I looked at her sheepishly and stared for a while. "You. You are pregnant. How can you be so sure?" I asked her not really believing her. She stared at me and took out a test of pregnancy and it showed positive, I looked at it for about five minutes before talking again. "Wow. I mean, I'm happy for you but you do know who the father is, right?" I asked, I already had a suspicion of who it might be but I wanted to hear it from her first. "Yes, I know the father. It's Kisuke." She told while blushing. I couldn't believe my eyes my best friend who liked to tease people and didn't have problem to speak her mind or say something inappropriate, was blushing like a teenage girl! It was so funny that I laughed. Hard. And loud. "Hey! Don't laugh at me! It's not funny! I don't know what to do, I don't even know if I should say it to Kisuke! I mean, he's my best friend but he sees me like a sister…" Yoru-chan said sadly and furious. I stopped laughing and I smiled at her. "I'm sorry, Yoru-chan, it's just that you don't realize how much it IS funny! You should talk with Kisuke and I am sure that if you have his baby than you can be sure that he sees you as more than a 'sister', hell! He sees you as more than a best friend if you would ask me!" I told her and she looked at me deeply. I knew that she was in deep thoughts because she left her mind out of the real world.

Not long after Yoru-chan left, the phone rang and when I answered, I was surprised to hear Tessai. "Masaki-san? What did you do to Yoruichi-san? When she came to the shop, she was red and she talked with Boss alone. Then, when she says that I can take out Boss, he was lying unconscious and I had to wake him up just to see him mumble something and look for Yoruichi-san… So, care to explain?" Tessai said in his baritone voice. I laughed so hard that I dropped the phone and Isshin came to see what was happening, I told everything to Tessai and Isshin listened too. Isshin laughed as hard as me and Tessai hung up to see where is Boss could be.

The day after, Kisuke and Yoruichi came to our house for the dinner and the two of them told us that they were going to be together from now on. Kisuke was a bit edgy about being a father but we told him that everything would be alright. I was happy to see Yoru-chan smile for real and she was excited to have a baby with the man she loved nonetheless. I wondered for a moment if she would give birth in her Shinigami form or her gigai, so I asked her. "Yoru-chan? How are you going to give birth? In your Shinigami form or Gigai?" She looked at me and stared for a while without saying anything and then she started to laugh at me like I was stupid, which made me a bit angry. Kisuke who heard our conversation decided to explain me how it was going to be. "Masaki-chan, she will be going to give birth in her Shinigami form because, well, we did it in these forms and we are actually never in our gigai because of the store who conceal our Reiatsu." Kisuke explained to me. I understood and stared at my best friend still laughing at me for nothing. They returned to their home and I looked at Isshin lovingly. He kissed me and the two of us went to our room for the beginning of a good night.

It's been a while since I wanted to talk with Isshin about our powers and the effect on our child. I waited for him to close the clinic and when he came into the living room I asked him to sit on the couch. I was going to have our baby in almost a month but we weren't sure, so I really wanted to talk with him because I knew that after our baby would come we won't be able to talk privately for what I wanted to ask him. "Isshin, I don't think it would be a good idea to introduce the Shinigami or Quincy world to our child. I fear that something bad might happen if he knows about them…" I said while rubbing by big belly. Isshin looked thoughtful for a moment before giving me his answer. "So, you don't want him to know about his heritage? What about your family? And Kisuke and Yoruichi? What about them, would he know them? You know that there is a chance that he will be able to see spirits, don't you?" Isshin asked a hand caressing by belly while he talks. "I don't mind them knowing our child and I know that but I just don't want him to know of his heritage so soon. Maybe later. When he will be more mature but not as a kid. If he does see spirit, we will explain them to him but not before." I replied watching lovingly my husband nodding.

He told everyone of our wish and all of them accepted even if my Uncle, which I see more like a father, was reluctant at first but he wanted to know his 'grandchild' as he said. Finally, July 15, I gave birth to my baby, my beautiful baby. Ryu-chan, Kanae-chan, Uryu-kun and Uncle Soken were there to see my baby, Ryu-chan was going to be the godfather and Yoru-chan would be the godmother. Isshin and I decided that it was best because the two of them were the closest to me and Isshin knew that it was important for me. We named our baby boy Ichigo, I argued with my husband and family to say that it meant 'Protector Number One' and not 'Strawberry'. I was happy to see Uryu-kun, I didn't have the chance to see him lately and now I could see that he had dark blue hair much like his mother and her blue eyes, he had the face of his father. I took him in my arms while Isshin put Ichi-kun in the arms of Ryu-chan, unknowingly, a nurse came in our room and finding the moment perfect took a picture of all of us, everyone smiled in the picture, even Ryu-chan. The nurse gave me the picture and I kept it carefully, I showed it to Isshin and smiled at it, our next visitor was Kisuke, Yoru-chan and Tessai, the three came with a gift for Ichi-kun, which were baby clothes and such. Yoru-chan wouldn't stop to call Ichi-kun 'Berry-chan', much to my demise and she took him in her arms. I loved to see her acting lovingly with her son and I told her that she was the Godmother of my baby boy; she was in such joy that she cried tears of joy; I think it was tears of joy… Again, the same nurse came by to see if everything was alright and she took another picture of us, again she gave me the picture and she told she was sorry to always taking picture of them but she said that she found us really happy in these moments and she would be sad if she didn't picture their happiness in frame.

I loved the idea of knowing that my little boy won't be alone to go to school because there would be Uryu-kun and Yoru-chan's boy with him. Talking of her boy, she gave birth of him this morning and Kisuke and she named him Nakahira. He was just as dark-skinned as his mother but he had the sandy blonde hair of his father with the orange eyes of his mother, it was really impressive to see but not as impressive as the hair of Ichi-kun. He had orange hair, real orange it makes him look cute and it matches his brown eyes, he has the face of his father and his unruly hair. I knew that Ichi-kun could see spirits because one day, I was walking with him to get to Kisuke when there was a Soul alone and Ichi-kun waved at the soul who stayed with us to entertain my little boy. I don't think he knew that I could see him but that doesn't matter as long as he didn't hurt him.

While Uryu-kun was quiet and smile shyly to anyone, Ichi-kun was over-affective and smiled brightly to everyone but he cried every time he got hurt and Naka-kun was loud and very demanding of his parents, I think that last week Tessai took a day off without saying anything to his Boss and stayed for the rest of the day in the library alone. Now our boys were almost all three years old, when I learned that I was pregnant. I was congratulated and I gave birth to twin girls named Karin and Yuzu, the two of them are so different from each other it was scary.

The first day Ichi-kun got to school, Karin and Yuzu couldn't stop crying, they wanted their big brother and Isshin stalked Ichi-kun all day. He knew that Uryu-kun and Naka-kun would also be there but he couldn't stop worrying for his little boy. It wasn't surprising to hear that Naka-kun made a lot of friends and that Uryu-kun and Ichi-kun made none.

TIMESKIP

Three years has passed since Ichi-kun's first day at school, now my little girls are too at school. Karin is acting tomboy like, she likes her big brother very much and Yuzu is more girly, they remind me of Ying and Yang. I don't know what I would do without them, they are my life and Isshin is just the perfect father for them to grow strong, he is always funny with them and I know that they are too his life. Ichi-kun began taking Karate lessons and I know that he gets beat often but he wants so much to wear his name proudly. Yoru-chan always calls him 'Berry-chan' and he always gets all flustered about it and shout that his name isn't 'Berry-chan'. Naka-kun treats Ichi-kun like he doesn't know him, even though they practically grew up together and were best friends. Uryu-kun ignores the two of them and it hurts me to see them acting like that around each other. I know that Ichi-kun tries his very best to get them to like the other but it never works, fortunately, Ichi-kun made a friend while at his karate lessons, Arisawa Tatsuki-chan, she comes often to our house and her and Ichi-kun practices their Karate. Tatsuki-chan always wins and Ichigo is always frustrated about it but he always smiles at the end and plays with Tatsuki-chan. Ichi-kun doesn't seem to make the difference between a soul and a normal person, it worries me so much…

It's raining and I have to pick Ichi-kun at his Karate lessons, I take two umbrellas, one for me and a little one for Ichi-kun. I'm running in the rain before I get late and when I enter the dojo, Ichi-kun was crying and Tatsuki-chan was helping him to get up. When he recognize me, he stops crying immediately and smiles at me, I couldn't help but smile too when seeing the smiling face of my 9 year-old boy. It has already been nine years since his birth and now I couldn't imagine a day without him in my life. He and I say goodbye to Tatsuki-chan and I give him the little umbrella to open while he picks his yellow coat. We walk slowly and we talk about his lesson that he just had but it came to an end when Ichi-kun ran down a hill to help a little girl. Then I realize that the little girl is a hollow, I barely sense the Reiatsu of Yoru-chan approaching us, I pushed Ichi-kun out of the way and feel for a moment relieved but then I feel something piercing my chest. I look down at my chest and I see something that resemble hair and starts to fade away as I feel my soul leaving my body. For a moment, everything is black then, when I see again, I see my dead body on the ground and Yoru-chan killing the Hollow before it devours me or Ichi-kun. I feel relieved to see my little boy well and alive, even if he was unconscious for the moment, the Reiatsu the Hollow was emitting was too strong for his little body. I sat down for a while and I felt Yoru-chan pulling me into a hug, I hugged her as well and she smiled sadly at me. "Do you want me to do something for you?" Yoru-chan asked me gently. I nodded. "Please, pick Ichi-kun and take him to my house, explain everything to Isshin. Be sure that Karin and Yuzu don't hear you. I will visit Ryu-chan, they will know what happened to me… Then I will be in your shop with Kisuke, you will join me there with Isshin if he wants." I replied gently. I knew that if I stayed in the Real World for too long, I would become a Hollow and would probably hurt a lot of people. I knew a lot of things about the Soul Society, so I could handle myself.

I went to the Ishida's and entered, Ryu-chan was at first confused but then he saw my chain and got sad. He searched for Kanae-chan and Uryu-kun, the little blue haired boy cried when he saw my chain but I told him that this wasn't the last he would see me and it was true because with the Reiatsu I had, I could become a Shinigami and visit them again. Kanae-chan hugged me and pulled Uryu-kun into the hug. "Uryu-kun, would you do me a favor?" I asked the little boy. "Anything, Aunt Masaki." He replied still sobbing. "Could you try being friends with Ichi-kun again, please? It would mean a lot for me. I know that it would please him too." I asked him and he nodded. I then left them to go at Kisuke's shop.

I entered and Kisuke asked me to follow him, I followed him and we walked into a small room where there was Isshin and Yoru-chan. When Isshin saw me, he was crying a little and he kissed me, then we stayed in the arms of each other for a while. "Isshin, be a good father to our children, they will need all sorts of supports. Don't goof around. I'm serious; they will need you to be strong. Don't forget to tell them that I loved them with all my heart and that I will always be there. I love you…" I said crying at the end. I couldn't bear the thought of not seeing my children for a while. "I'll never forget you, my beautiful Masaki. You and our children are my life. Search for the Shiba and talk with Kukkaku, she will understand your situation. I love you." Isshin replied gently and kissed me another time. "I'll see you and the kids again, I will found your sister and I will become a Shinigami. Just don't goof around and if I found that you mistreated our children I will kill you." I said sweetly and dangerously. They smiled at each other and Kisuke picked Benihime to konso me to Rukongai. As I was beginning to fade away, I smiled at them for the last time before years.

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-MangaGleek