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I do not own bleach.

Author's Note:

So this idea has been floating around in my head for some time now but I haven't had the time to type it out until now. So if you enjoy then please review I want to hear what you think.

Chapter 1

Toshiro Hitsugaya

I watched nervously as Ichigo and Karin's father Isshin both stared at us from across the table. I rubbed my hands together before pulling them from the table and placing them in my lap.

"Well what did you guys want to tell us?" Ichigo asked in an uninterested tone. There really wasn't any reason for him to be here in the first place, I clearly remember Karin saying that she wanted to speak to their father about something important, I don't remember her asking Ichigo to stay behind. I gave him a cold stare before switching my gaze to Isshin who was giving me a similar to the one his son was giving me.

"Well dad…I have something really important that I need to tell you…" Karin started before shifting her gaze from her father and brother down to her hands, which were neatly folded into her lap. Everyone in the room was on the edge of their seats anticipating the news she had to tell them.

Yuzu was standing in the kitchen waiting for Karin to share her news.

I took a deep breath as Karin mindlessly blurted out the rest of her sentence not being able to hold in the secret any longer. I felt my nervousness slowly starting to melt away as I watched the excited faces of Yuzu and Isshin. Ichigo sat back in his chair not giving any type of reply. He was actually actin as if Karin hadn't said anything at all.

He remained quiet as he stood from his chair and walked around the table and over to Karin. He placed a hand on her shoulder and smiled softly.

"I'm Happy for you Karin." He said calmly. With his other hand I felt him grab the back of my head; he pushed his hand forward forcing my head along with it. My forehead struck the table with a loud bang. I cringed as pain ran through my forehead giving me one of the worst headaches I had ever experienced in my life.

"What the Hell is your problem Kurosaki?!" I asked moving a hand to my forehead. I could feel the bruise forming where my head hit the tables.

"I warned you about putting your hands on my little sister Toshiro, you're lucky that I haven't knocked your teeth outta your mouth yet." He said in a very threatening tone as he place his hand to the back of my head, readying himself to beat my head against the table again.

"I'd like to see you try!" I challenged as I stood from my chair and got in his face as best as I could, I had gotten a little taller since the winter war, but I was still a lot shorter than he was.

"Will you two idiots stop acting like animals!?" Karin screamed as she stood and placed herself in between the both of us.

"But he—" Ichigo started. Karin threw her hands up stopping him from finishing the rest of his sentence.

"Ichigo nothing you can say is that will change the fact that this is really happening. I'm going to start a family with Toshiro and I want to go to the soul society and live with him." she said folding her arms across her chest.

"You wanna what!?" her family screamed in unison.

"Pff, that isn't even possible." Ichigo replied folding his arms over his chest.

"Yes it is." I replied matter-of-factly. I was actually kind of offended that he insisted on insulting my intelligence as often as he did. It would be irresponsible to make a decision like this without doing the proper research first.

"Shut up." Ichigo replied. He probably didn't have a better comeback because that was defiantly not a very good one.

"Are you sure about this?" Isshin asked in a calm voice, it was strange; this is the calmest I've ever seen him behave. Who would have thought that he would be so calm in a situation like this? Any normal parent would probably be foaming at the mouth after hearing this type of news from their 18 year old daughter, but not Isshin.

"We think that it would be safer I if went to the soul society. That way the baby would be less of a target for hollows and bad guys that Ichigo had manages to piss off over the last couple of years." She said.

"I'm not the only one who works for the soul society you know. Your boyfriend is an official member I'm just a substitute. If you were to be attacked it wouldn't be entirely my fault." Ichigo said bitterly folding his arms over his chest.

"A big part of it would probably your fault." I said plainly. "Everyone knows that when you take a position fighting for justice, your family and the people around you will inevitably become a target of the villains + you fight against. If you were smarter about the conditions you left your family in they wouldn't constantly be made a target." I finished folding my arms over my chest.

"Shut up." Ichigo said unable to muster up a better comeback once again.

"If this is what you think is right then you have my permission to go." Isshin said. He walked over to Karin and wrapped her in a hug. Another thing I'm not used to seeing, Karin actually accepting a form a public affection from her father. This day has really been full of surprises.

"Taicho!" Matsumoto yelled as she flung the front door open and stepped into the Kurosaki household without so much as a hello to the rest of the people in the room. "Are you ready to go?" she asked.

"Go? Where are you going?" Karin asked.

"I have to go back to the soul society and personally ask permission for you to enter the soul society for an extended stay." I replied. Karin was about to open her mouth to speak but Ichigo butted in before she could say anything.

"Great, first you get her pregnant then you tuck tail and run off to the soul society." He said. "You're pathetic."

"What type of man do you think I'm Kurosaki?" I asked without turning to look at him. "I have no intentions of leaving Karin to take care of a child that is partly my responsibility. I'm going to come back as soon as I get permission from the head captain."

"And what if you don't get permission?" Ichigo asked. I had truly never thought about what would happen if he didn't say yes, but I knew the odds of that were very small. I'm sure that he would see things exactly how I would. It just made more sense for Karin to be in the soul society as opposed to the real world. She would be less of a target and if she did in fact become a target of someone's scorn then I would be able to make sure she was safe.

"Then I'll leave the soul society and come here." I replied simply.

"Yeah right, as hard as you work you would never leave." Ichigo said. I really just wish he would shut the hell up. Karin already warned me about acting like an animal, but Ichigo was making it really hard for me to resist the violent thoughts running through my mind every time he opened his mouth.

"If it came down to it I would leave to be with Karin and our child." I said to him. Before Ichigo could open his mouth to say anything else Karin stepped in front of him and gave me an understanding smile.

"Go ahead and get back; just make sure you don't take too long." She said as she shooed me in the direction of the door. I smiled before walking out of the house behind Matsumoto.

"Hitsugaya Taicho, so nice of you to join us," Head captain Yamamoto said. "You weren't supposed to back from your vacation for another three days." He added. I nodded politely before going over to take my place in line. I could tell by the atmosphere that this meeting was of no importance. Nothing was happening in the soul society but there was a meeting every month that was dedicated to things that were not of much urgency.

"So as for the matter of the new drapery in the meeting hall I believe that red would be a very appropriate color." Yumichika said as he held up five different pieces of fabric all of a different color red. Head captain had been letting him design the interior of the meeting hall and the 1st squad barracks for some time now. Even though the drapes that were already hanging in the meeting hall were red no one objected because no one else really cared.

"Hitsugaya taicho," Head captain said as he stepped over to my after Yumichika had finished saying what he had to say. "Why have you returned so far before the day you were scheduled to come back?" I looked back at him struggling to regain control of my thoughts. It seemed like everything in my head was all mixed together and nothing was making sense. I looked down at my feet then back up at him.

"We're waiting…speak up captain." He said pressing me to answer his question.

"My deepest apologies; my mind is just elsewhere at the moment and it's becoming harder to find the words that I want to say." I said still digging deep into my mind trying to find the rehearsed conversation I had practiced on the way here.

"Where is that?" he asked as he moved himself to completely stand in front of me.

"Sir?" I asked surprised by his question. I didn't really know what to say or what to do. I didn't want to come right out and tell him in front of everyone. I had actually planned on talking with him in private about this but it seems that now I have no choice but to come right out and say it.

"I have a lot to prepare for." I replied simply hoping that the answer I gave would be enough to make him stop with all the questions until I got the chance to speak with him alone.

"Well then, since the matter is so important then you should share with everyone else." He said. "One of us might be able to help with the problem you're having." I was caught; like a child who had just had their note taken up by the teacher and was forced to read it in front of the entire class.

"Well get on with it." Kenpachi said in an annoyed tone.

"I am in the middle of making preparations for the birth of my first child." I said to him. The room was so quiet I swear I could hear my own heart beating. I heard someone start to laugh; I looked over to my right to see Kenpachi almost doubled over in laughter.

"What's so funny?" I asked almost offended by his reaction.

"Didn't know you had it in you kid." He said. His comment only created more laughter from the rest of the captains and vice captains that were in the room.

"I'm not a child." I said through clenched teeth.

"You a lot younger than me so yes you are." He replied. Even thought I was younger than him like he said I was well over the age of a child and I deserved to be treated as such.

"So who is the lucky woman?" Yamamoto asked. The look he was giving me told me that he already knew but he was waiting for me to say it out loud.

"Kurosaki Karin." I replied simply.

"That must be where that bruise came from." Kenpachi said pointing to the spot on my forehead where Kurosaki had banged my head against the table at dinner.

"Those Kurosaki women are truly something." Yamamoto commented ignoring Kenpachi's constant outbursts. "Do you also plan on leaving your position as the tenth squad captain to be with the woman?"

"I do not wish to resign." I said to him.

"You honestly do not plan on leaving her at a time like this?" he asked almost sounding shocked.

"Not at all sir," I said quickly. "I actually wanted to ask your permission to bring her here to the soul society." I said looked from his face to the floor then back up to him.

"For a visit?" he pressed.

"I was hoping for something more permanent. After talking with Karin and her family we decided that it would be a better idea for her to come to the soul society so that she doesn't become a target in the human world." I said.

"So you've thought this through." He commented not really speaking directly to me. "You have my permission to raise your family wherever you see fit." He said. "Just make sure it won't be a distraction for you." He said. I breathed a silent sigh of relief thinking that the worst was over for now until the head captain dismissed the meeting and everyone immediately headed over to me and bombarded my with questions. I looked around at everyone and answered MOST of their questions. Successfully avoiding ones from Hirako Taicho and Kenpachi. Ukitake came over and placed his hand on my shoulder.

"Come on guys, I'm sure he has to get going he probably has a lot to do to ready his living quarters for his new families arrival." He said. I looked at him out of the corner of my eye to find him smiling politely around at everyone around us. They reluctantly backed away leaving me to stand next to Ukitake in front of the meeting room door.

"Thank you." I said to him grateful for the fact that he had saved me from the other captains.

"No thanks are needed." He said before patting my back and walking away from me.