Chapter one: A Complicated Condition

Rukia sighed somewhat at her current situation. She was currently all but bed bound due to her "condition". Said condition was off course all that dam idiot Ichigo fault, and she wasn't allowed out of the Kuchiki estate under any condition. Since the person who had gave such order was Captain Unohana Retsu herself, Rukia knew that absolutely no one would remotely even try to help Rukia leave the estate in a million years and were in fact much more likely to go out there way to stop her due to the fear of getting on the wrong side of one of the most powerful captains in the Gotei Thirteen for not trying hard enough to keep her in the estate.

Thankfully she at least had some company to talk too in the form of Yumichika and Hanatarō. Yumichika had been ordered by Captain Kenpachi to ensure no one tried to harm Rukia in her weakened state. Originally Captain Kenpachi had wanted Ikkaku to protect Rukia as well, but since her brother had only grudgingly allowed Yumichika in the estate to specifically protect Rukia because he was 'The least barbaric of the barbarians" and was in fairness about a Vice-captain level Shinigami in combat and therefore a good guard. There was no way he was letting another member of Eleventh Division inside the estate when he already had Yumichika to 'deal with' as he put it.

Hanatarō on the other hand had had zero difficulty getting into the Kuchiki estate, since he was there under Capitan Unohana orders and she was held in quiet high esteem by brother, and therefore was totally acceptable and allowed to go where he wanted in the estate and even order the servants around if the orders related to something medical.

All in all, Rukia had grown closer to both of them over the last couple of months, as besides the servants occasionally and her brother, they where the people she saw the most day to day. It really had taken her by surprise how quickly and to what level she had lost her freedom since Ichigo had got her pregnant.

Not so long ago Rukia had finally married Ichigo. It been a wonderful experience to change her name to Kurosaki Rukia and call Ichigo her husband. And since they were both madly in love and married, they naturally did what nearly every recently married couple did.... Therefore when the morning sickness had happened. Rukia had sensibly made he way to Fourth Devision and was expecting nine months of mood swings, strange eating urges, back pains and changes to her wardrobe.

But it seemed that her baby was taking after its father already and breaking every rule and expectation about pregnancy it could. About three weeks into her pregnancy Rukia had started noticing that low ranking Shinigami had a tendency to avoid spending too much time around her and the ones who did had a bad tendency to run off to Fourth Devision after complaining about serous headaches or feeling faint. Then there been that incident where Yuzu had fainted right in front of Rukia....

It hadn't taken Capitan Unohana terribly long to figure out why. Apparently her baby had a bucket load of spiritual power and because it was so very young, absolutely no control over it. She had also detected some low level Hollow type energy coming of Rukia. Between those two piece of information the first chains had been placed on Rukia freedom. Rukia was banned from going near anything or anyone with Hollow type powers (including Ichigo) in case the unborn baby 'picked up some bad Reishi' or spending more than half a hour around anyone who wasn't at least a seated officer in single digits .

All in all Rukia had found these rules had totally messed up both her professional life and her family life too. No shopping trips with Yuzu and Karin, no training junior members of the Thirteenth Devision, no combat training and gossiping with Lisa about how Ichigo was doing under Captain Shunsui and most painfully.... no Ichigo at all.

Then things had got even worse. About three months into her pregnancy Rukia had started to notice that members of the Eleventh Devision had this knack of being wherever she happened to be. Even when she thought she was completely alone, she sometimes saw something pink out of the corner of her eye that she was fairly certain was Yachiru watching over her discretely. It was so dam annoying to be treated like some pampered helpless princess who needed to wrapped up in cotton wool to be safe. So she had gone right up to Capitan Kenpachi and demanded that he seek treating her as such and that merely being pregnant didn't mean she was helpless.

She had then passed out in front of him and Yachiru. God that had been embarrassing. She had then awoken in her bed and been told by Capitan Unohana that she wasn't to leave the estate anymore in case she fainted and in fact was advised to stay in her bed unless bodily needs forced her out of it. Course after Rukia had hit month six, she was pretty much crippled and forced to lay in bed all day because the extreme and inescapable spiritual pressure her unborn baby was now constantly giving off. She had felt as weak as a kitten and it was a real battle to get out of bed and stand on her own two feet for crying out loud!

Hanatarō had been left in charge of looking after Rukia once she became bed bound and then ,after a fair bit of heated argument, brother had let Yumichika become her guard. Which nicely lead to Rukia's present.

"So were all in agreement here." Rukia asked. "Bump here going to have a mix of Chappy ,Yuki and Pupples wallpaper on his or her walls?"

"Oh that sound like it look utterly beautiful and so cutesy too!" Yumichika replied delightfully.

"But what about Alfred?" Hanatarō asked nervously. "I had a Alfred night light when I was very young and it always made me feel safe."

"A skull with a top hat night light made you feel safe?" Yumichika asked in disbelief before taking on a annoyed air. "And lets even start on how hideous a skull is, its a symbol of death."

"Ayasegawa-kun you are aware that we are all technically speaking... already dead, so what wrong with a symbol of polite and civil death to us ?" Hanatarō said seriously if somewhat nervously.

"Bump might not be dead." Rukia added abruptly. "I mean Ichigo is still basically alive isn't he?"

Yumichika and Hanatarō looked down at Rukia at this question.

"Theres a lot of uncertainty about that one to be honest Kurosaki-dona." Hanatarō explained. "Kurosaki-kun seems basically the same as he was ten years ago when he first gain his Shinigami powers. Also compare Karin-chan to Yuzu-chan too. Yuzu-chan seems to have grown into a woman while Karin-chan seems still to be a teenager...like she stopped aging when Capitan Hitsugaya finally relented and after the Captain-commander gave him the go ahead, let her become a Shinigami on her sixteenth birthday."

"So in all likely hood Ichigo been dead since you turned him him into a Shinigami." Yumichika explained. "Which means Bump going to be a soul like everyone else here I think."

"Bump won't be a soul like everyone else." Rukia said as worried thoughts ran through her head. "Bump got a father who's is a Vizard, that use to be normal human till he was given Shinigami powers in a illegal manner and a mother who's part of one of the most powerful families in the Soul Society. In addition to all that Bump got as much spiritual power in the womb as some captains, no way way Bump going to be like everyone else remotely."

That killed the conversation for a while, but eventually a question was asked....

"So just how did a prestigious immortal lady Shinigami like you end up with a crude inhuman and possible mortal Vizard outsider in the first place?" Yumichika eventually asked, clearly to break the awkward silence.

"Oh thats a interesting little story actually..." Rukia said as she begun the tale of how she got with Ichigo...


A/N: So my little mini story starts! I'm planing about five chapters or so, from various POV and relating to important points in Ichigo's and Rukia's relationship, with Yumichika,Hanatarō and Rukia bits at the end.