It had been about a month since that fateful night with her lieutenant. For a couple of weeks, Hoshi hadn't been feeling quite herself. Some days she felt sick and other days she had felt completely fine. But she wasn't ready to saying about her strange sickness, which most of the time she ended up staying in her room just to avoid people. She knew she couldn't stay in her room all the time otherwise someone would start to wonder what her problem was. Slowly, she walked out of her room, her right hand over her stomach. Today was one of those days she didn't feel too good.

"Hey, Hoshi!" A load voice came from behind her. It was the voice of Rangiku Matsumoto.

The lavender haired woman turned to face the lieutenant of the Tenth Division and gave her a small smile. "Hey, lieutenant Matsumoto."

"I told you before that you can just call me Rangiku. I've been meaning to ask you where you've been. You're around some days and other days you're nowhere to be found. Is something bothering you?" Rangiku asked her, tilting her head to the side.

Hoshi tensed up a bit at her curiousness. Her golden eyes looked through her bangs at the taller woman before her. "It's nothing major. Just haven't really been feeling all that well lately. I don't even know why to be honest."

The golden blonde lieutenant looked at her for a moment. What could possibly be making her sick? Something must be wrong with her if it had been going for a month now. "Could you possibly be pregnant? I heard that in the world of the living women who are expecting are sick at the beginning."

"I can't be pregnant! That's not possible." Hoshi yelled out before covering her mouth. She felt like she needed to vomit at that moment.

Rangiku put her index finger on her chin while the other hand was under her chest, pushing it up a bit. "You're right. You would have had to have sex with someone to become pregnant. Unless you did and you didn't tell anyone about it."

The lavender haired Shinigami stared at her for a moment, her cheeks becoming a bit flushed. "Even if I did, I don't think it's everyone's business. But, I have to go, I need to find Lieutenant Hisagi." Quickly she used Shunpo before Rangiku could say anything to her.

She stopped at the feeling of Shūhei's spiritual pressure. Quickly, she made her way over to it. Once she could see him in her sight, she stopped once again, holding onto her stomach while hunched over. Shūhei looked over at the 5th seat of his Division. He moved closer to her, kneeling down a bit to be at her level.

"Hoshi…what are you doing here?" he questioned her.

She looked up at him, "Shūhei…Lieutenant Hisagi there's something I really need to tell you. It's very important."

He raised his eyebrow for a moment at what she had said. "I told you, we're not going to talk about that night, even if it has been a month."

Hoshi shook her head, "It's not about that. Well, it kind of is but it's still impo-" she stopped, talking as she felt herself vomit on the ground between her and her lieutenant. It was certainly an embarrassing thing to have done.

Shūhei was a bit disgusted by what had just happened. He certainly wasn't expecting that to happen right in the middle of a conversation. "Can you tell me what's important?"

She wiped her mouth a bit, nodded her head. "I think I may be pregnant. I haven't really been feeling all that great after a couple weeks since that night."

"You're serious about this aren't you?" He questioned her in a serious tone.

Hoshi nodded her head, "Yes. I wouldn't lie to you about something like this. I mean, you don't have to worry about it if you don't want to. I'll figure it out on my own."

Shūhei grabbed a hold of her arm, pulling her close to his chest. He placed his free hand on her head, making sure she didn't move very much. "No, that's not how it's going to be, Hoshi. You and I are in this together, that's my child too."

Her cheeks were flushed at that moment. It was a combination of what he just said and from being sick. She closed her eyes as she stayed close to his chest. "Thank you, Lieutenant Hisagi, it means so much that you're going to stay by me side through this."

At that moment, he picked her up bridal style, flashing her a kind smile. "Now, you need to rest. There's no need for you to be up and about in your condition. At least not until you stop vomiting everywhere."

Hoshi nodded her head in agreement with what he said to her. She wouldn't be much use to the Gotei 13 in her condition anyway. Even if she could have been of help, she wouldn't be able to do much without feeling sick most of the time. "Yes, you're right."

Back at the 9th Division barracks, Shūhei took her back to her room so that she could get some rest. He sat her down on her futon, grabbing a more comfortable outfit for her to wear. "You should wear this instead. It'll put less pressure on your stomach than if you kept wearing what you're wearing now."

She looked down at her shihakusho. Maybe he was right about that? It didn't bother her that she had to wear what she wore to bed, it was more comfortable. She took it from him, undressing, she didn't even care that he was still in the room; she needed to get out of her shihakusho. She sighed heavily, pulling her blankets up to her waist while she was still sitting.

"I'm still very thankful for this, Lieutenant Hisagi." Hoshi said softly, giving him a small smile.

He sat on the bed beside her, putting a hand on the top of her head. He leaned close to her, giving her a soft kiss on her forehead. With that, he stood up and left her room. He took a deep breath, keeping his back against her door. What was he thinking? Could there possibly be feelings even he wasn't aware of? After he all he was mostly focused on trying to get Rangiku to like him the he did, yet he had ignored the one person who was interested him until that one night. Was that why he took her away from everyone else? He was getting confused by his own feelings.