Disclaimer: Do not own Bleach. Insert funny comment
Warnings: This is an AU story – so bear with me:)
Pairings: Mainly Ichiruki
A/N: Many thanks to my beta, ForeverSam, for helping me and giving me enough confidence to actually post this story:) This is my first fanfic, so please be gentle.
Accidental Bliss
By: akirk85029
6 weeks.
It had been 6 weeks since Ichigo had last seen the raven-haired temptress of his dreams. They had shared one magical night and she had disappeared even before he had woken up. He wondered where she was, what she was doing, would he ever see her again? He constantly thought about her and his friends were starting to bug him because he was always spacing out.
Rukia was kneeling on the cold hard floor her hands gripping the commode tightly as she was violently throwing up everything she had greatly devoured earlier in the morning. She looked over at the counter, when she had a moment where she could breathe, where the positive pregnancy test sat almost taunting her with its results. She thought back to the night she had spent with the orange haired man named Ichigo. It was a perfect night and she wondered why she had left so early in the morning, not even attempting to get his last name. Maybe she had been scared? His caresses, his kisses had been burned into her memory and now she had a memento of that night. She knew where he lived, she remembered how many times she had almost gone back there, but then she would think that she was being stupid. He probably had a different girl every night, he was too good looking not to have every girl wanting him, so what made her so special?
Rukia groaned as she made her way to a standing position and flushed the toilet taking away the remains of her breakfast. She walked to the counter, adjusting her shirt and washed her hands and then proceeded to brush her teeth, yet again. When she was finished she walked out into the living room to her purse, pulled out her cell phone, and called her Aunt Retsu.
Retsu Unohana was sitting at her desk in her office at the hospital. She was the Chief of Staff of the main hospital in Karakura Town. She was going over some paperwork when her cell phone started ringing. She glanced at the caller ID and answered it when she saw her niece's name.
"Good morning, Rukia," Retsu said happy to have a distraction from paperwork.
"Aunt Retsu, are you busy this morning?" Rukia asked getting to the point.
"Why?" Retsu asked her curiosity having been peaked. Rukia wanted to see her and Rukia was not one to skip out on work for any reason, let alone being sick, especially since her father was the boss.
"I think that, I mean, well …, I…I'm pregnant." Rukia finally blurted out, hoping that, out of all the people, her Aunt would not think less of her.
Retsu sat at her desk dumbfounded. Of all things, she was not expecting that to come out of her niece's mouth. She looked over at her calendar to double check that it was not April Fool's Day.
"Aunt Retsu?" Rukia queried after not hearing anything from her aunt, and was suddenly worried that maybe this was a bad idea.
"Sorry, Rukia, you just shocked me. I can see you now if you want." Retsu said, looking at her task list for the day.
"Sure, I'll leave now; I'll be there in about twenty minutes." Rukia said hanging up her phone and grabbed her purse and keys and headed immediately out the door while dialing her sister's telephone to tell her that she had "forgot" a doctor's appointment and would be late for work and to inform their father.
Retsu closed her phone and took a deep breathe. She knew that her brother-in-law was going to go ballistic when he found out. She tried to create a mental image of him going crazy, but she couldn't. She wondered how her sister, Hisana, would take the news. She grabbed a couple of files and started to make her way downstairs so she could greet Rukia when she got there.
Rukia followed her aunt into an examining room and changed out of her clothes into the paper like substance that patients have to wear. Rukia gasped as the cold gel landed on her now flat stomach and wondered how long before that changed. She looked over at her aunt as she placed the gismo that allowed the ultrasound machine to retrieve an image from inside her stomach on top of the gel and rolled it around and Rukia soon heard the sound her of child's heartbeat even though she couldn't tell what she was looking at on the screen.
"There's your baby!" Retsu said pointing to something that looked like a peanut on the screen.
"It's so small." Rukia said quietly not really talking to anyone in particular.
"It won't stay that way." Retsu said with a grin and printed a copy of the sonogram for Rukia to keep. "I'd say you are approximately six weeks." Retsu said still moving the contraption around on Rukia's stomach.
"I know." Rukia said.
Retsu just looked at Rukia and smiled. She finally turned off the machine and gave some wipes to Rukia to wash the gel off. "So who's the father?" Retsu finally asked.
Rukia just kept her head down.
Retsu's smile faltered a little. "You do know who the father is, don't you?" Retsu asked a little bit more like a mother than a doctor.
"Yes," Rukia said snapping her head up and then looked away, "well, sorta, I mean, we only spent one night together and I only know his first name."
Retsu silently cursed. Rukia's father was going to kill her. Rukia looked at her aunt. "I know, don't say it." She knew her father was going to kill her.
"What's his name?" Retsu asked, knowing it was probably pointless in asking without a last name.
"Ichigo." Rukia responded while throwing away the wipes and started grabbing her clothes to change back.
Retsu looked at her niece. She knew that name, but from where? Retsu's eyes widened. It had to be a coincidence, but how many people had that name? "Rukia, do you mind if I bring an intern in here to write you a prescription for your prenatal pills? I left my prescription pad in my office and it would be faster this way." Retsu asked ignoring the weight of her pad in the pocket of her white lab coat.
"No problem." Rukia said while throwing her shirt over her shoulders.
Retsu quietly exited the room and walked down to the nurse's station. "Please page Dr. Kurosaki down here." Retsu said to the person sitting behind the desk and was promptly responded with a "Yes, ma'am."
Retsu waited all of two minutes before the orange-haired intern was walking out of the elevator towards her. Retsu eyed him suspiciously.
Ichigo was surprised to see the Chief of Staff waiting for him as he exited the elevator and as she glared at him, he wondered what he might have done wrong.
"Dr. Kurosaki, I have a favor I need to ask of you." Retsu said, noting the look of surprise that registered on his face for a second.
"Sure, Dr. Unohana." Ichigo said wondering what the favor could be.
"I seem to have left my prescription pad in my office and I have a patient in Room two-oh-three that needs a prescription for prenatal pills. She's six weeks along and her name is Ru- Miss Kuchiki." Retsu corrected herself quickly, looking sternly at the intern.
"Yes, ma'am." Ichigo said and turned to walk towards the exam rooms wondering how he had pissed her off to give him such a menial task. Six weeks, that's how long since he'd seen Rukia. He then cursed himself again, how many times was his mind going to drift back to her. He needed to give it up; he was never going to see her again. He took a deep breathe and knocked on the door to Room 203 and heard a soft "you can come in" before he opened the door and stepped in.
Retsu smiled as she watched him go in and hoped that her instincts about people were still accurate. She sat in a chair in the nurse's station and decided to wait and see the results of her meddling in her niece's life.