Hello hello to everyone! It's me again, Just shipping.
Merry Christmas to you all!
So I first thought to make a oneshot out of this, but all your positive reactions made me decide to make a collection of oneshots of this about IchiRuki with their children.
The chapters will not be in a chronical order, but I really really hope that you all will like them and enjoy them.
So I wanted to post this oneshot on the first day of Christmas, but I'm too late for that now. But thankfully Christmas is on two days, so please excuse me for being late with this oneshot and I hope that you guys enjoy it. It has been written very quickly, so chances are that there are some grammar mistakes in it, so please accept my apologies for that. English is not my native language.
And please do leave your reviews, they make my day.
Author note: I do not own Bleach. If I did, well… ICHIRUKI! Do I need to say more than that?
Merry Christmas
Kurosaki Ichiro was excited. Today was Christmas eve, which meant that Santa Claus would visit his jii-sama's house, to give everyone their presents.
That's why he and his little sister were waiting for that jolly old guy. Well actually, he had this planned all along, but then Masaki woke up when he had opened the door and she had threatened him that if he wouldn't tell her where he was going that she would cry and then he wouldn't be able to go, because mommy and daddy wouldn't let him leave. Her words, not his, though she was right about that premonition.
That's why his three-year-old sister was sitting there beside him. Thank Kami that he made her promise on Chappy's name she wouldn't tell this to their parents. Masaki took Chappy very serious, just like their mother.
He knew that she would stay quit, unlike their twin brothers. Sure, they were just one-year-old, so it was not like he would take them with him to wait for Santa Claus. But they never were quit, not even when they were sleeping, then they would talk in their sleep.
So here they were, waiting for Santa Claus to show up, see him and see if he would eat the cookies that they, their mom and oba-san Yuzu made.
"Ichi-nii, when will Shanta Chan come?"
"Saki Saki-chan, he has to go to other homes too, plus, he will wait until everyone else will fall asleep.
"Then shouldn't we sleep too? Or else he will not come here and then we won't get any presents!" Realizing this, fat tears started to show up in her ears and Ichiro sighed.
"If we will be really quiet, then he won't notice us and he will give us our presents. Besides Santa gives you presents when you have been good and I know that Saki Saki-chan has been nice, right?
She nodded at this and then beamed at him "Okay Ichi-nii, but when will mommy go to sleep? Or do you think that she is waiting for Santa too?"
He put his finger on his chin to think about this "I don't know. Do grown-ups wait for him too?"
Both were thinking long about this and didn't know what their parents were doing. They were looking at their mother who was out of their hearing distance and were slightly dozing off.
Right now Rukia was decorating the room whilst waiting for her husband to enter with the presents both had hidden into the truck of their car, thank Kami the kids had no idea that their presents came from their parents and hid it too well.
But Ichigo also told her he would have a surprise for her and she didn't like it when he saw her curious expression, his smirk grew even more cockier, as if that was even possible!
Suddenly she felt two arms from behind to wrap around her waist and she didn't need to turn around to see whose arms those were.
"Merry Christmas" a husky voice whispered.
She smiled "It's still Christmas eve, my dear husband."
"On the contrary, my dear wife, it's already midnight, which means that it's already Christmas."
"Oh, time has passed that quickly then. Did you get the presents for everyone?"
He smirked "Yes and not only that." He let go of her so she could turn around and then she saw what his surprise was.
Standing in front of her was her orange haired husband who was smirking at her in a Santa Claus-outfit. The only thing he lacked was the white wig and beard. Hell, he even had a pair of glasses on.
"Wh-what is this?"
"What is what?"
"You know what I mean, what is the meaning of this?"
"Well, I was thinking to get more in the Christmas spirit and what's a better way to get more into the spirit than wearing this outfit and act like Santa? Besides we all are actually Santa Claus, we have to buy the gifts and I think I deserved the cookies you all made for Santa aka me. I don't know why, but it looks like there is more effort in making cookies for him then when you guys are just baking at a regular day"
She smirked ''Ah, is my poor husband jealous?''
''Che, as if. Why would I be jealous? As if there is any reason for me to get jealous.''
Rukia rolled her eyes at him and gestured to him to put all the presents around the tree. Whilst doing that, Rukia couldn't help but glance at him. Ichigo felt her glancing towards him and before he could say anything, she already started talking.
"Is this some kind of fetish?"
"NO, why would you say that?"
"Because you are telling me that you wanted to wear this outfit to get into the holiday spirit and to act like Santa, but you are not wearing a wig and beard, so you don't look that much like him and you are giving me the look."
"What look?" He asked trying to look innocent.
"The adult look, Ichigo!" Saying this she had to blush and he smiled at that. He loved it whenever he made her blush, which made her more and more adorable.
"Oh, see how perverted my wife is, here I am standing in the Christmas spirit while you are thinking about naughty things, hence why you are on the naughty list!"
Rukia decided to play along and gasped "Oh no, Santa Clause, please tell me what I should do then?"
Ichigo liked where this was already going and put his hands around her waist to grab and pulled her towards him, leaning in to kiss her.
Rukia, knowing what his intentions were, wrapped her arms around his neck and leaned in closer to him. Their lips met and they shared a sweet kiss. When they broke apart Ichigo leaned in to kiss her again but they were interrupted by a crying sound.
''Of course they wouldn't sleep the entire night'' He muttered.
She giggled ''Let's face it, Kaien and Yoshiro will still wake up every night until they get a little bit older. Now, let's go, both of them will be awake right now and I don't want Ichiro and Masaki to wake up yet.'' Little did she know that they never fell asleep and were in shock seeing the interaction between their mother and Santa Claus, they only could see that their mother was talking with Santa Claus and then suddenly they started to kiss. If they had been any closer, they would have heard the conversation and know that it was their father. They had seen the orange hair sticking from under the hat and he didn't have his beard, but it was still Santa Claus to them, judging by the outfit.
When both parents started moving towards the stairs, Ichiro and Masaki ran towards their room, so they wouldn't get caught.
In the room
Both siblings were laying on their mattresses and still in shock of what they just had witnessed.
''Ichi-nii?''
''Hmmm.''
''Did you know that Shanta-chan and daddy looked like each other? And why did mommy and Shanta chan kiss each other? Mommy only kisses us and daddy.''
''I don't know Saki Saki, it's true that oka-chan only kisses us and daddy. And she only kisses daddy that way.''
Suddenly his little sister gasped ''Is mommy naughty then?''
Ichiro started to think and then came up with an answer ''No, Saki Saki, mommy is not naughty.''
''Huh?''
''Oka-chan is not naughty. It's Santa who is naughty. He used his magic to look like daddy and make oka-chan kiss him. That's why he looked a lot like otou-san.''
Ichiro had just remembered that whenever he would go outside with his mother other man would look at her with an expression which he didn't like. Sometimes when they all would go outside, he would see that while his father was tending to him and his siblings, he always had his mother at his side and would look at the men with that scary look (scowling) and mutter something about p-something men. That's why he was very protective over his mother and his siblings.
Ichigo loved to recognize himself and his wife in the behaviors of his children and now it was Ichiro who was the only one in which he recognized himself, but that was because he was the oldest, Masaki was more a mix of his own mother and Rukia, and the twins were only one-year old right now, but Rukia was sure that their energy came from their father, but he knew that she contributed some of her energy too. And well, he was curious about their future kids, whom would they look like?
''Look, Saki Saki, we all know that Santa Claus has magic, right?'' She nodded at this and he continued ''So he used his magic to kiss oka-chan, we all know that she is very pretty and so that's why he used his magic to look like otou-san and that's how they kissed.''
''Mommy is really verryyyy pretty!''
''That's true, but now we have to make Santa Claus stay away from her and daddy to come back from outside, but how?'' And both siblings were thinking.
''I know, Saki Saki?''
''Hmmm?''
''Want to sleep with mommy and daddy tonight?''
''But, we already made a fort in grandpa's room…''
''Saki Saki, tonight we have to make sure that Santa Claus is not alone with oka-chan, so we will stay in ojii-san's room another time, okay?''
''Okay!''
''Hmmm, now how to get there?''
''Suddenly his sister started to cry and he was shocked by this, so he started to comfort her, but she didn't stop crying.''
Suddenly the door opened and Rukia ran over towards Masaki. Rukia picked her up and placed her on her lap. Masaki hugged her and little by little, her crying stopped. Rukia shifted back and forth with her and comforted her, when she noticed that Masaki stopped, she broke their hug off and asked her what was wrong.
''I-I had a nightmare, mommy and I was really scared.'' And she sobbed some more.
Ichiro realized that this was his sister's solution to get into their parents' room and he had to smile at his smart little sister.
''Oh sweetie, it's alright already. Look, it was just a nightmare, there's no reason to be scared. Mommy and daddy are here, right? Do you want to talk about it?''
Masaki shook her head horizontal and turned towards the door to ask where her father was.
''He's now busy with Yoshiro, who's refusing to go back to sleep so daddy is trying to get him to sleep, but he will come here to watch over you.''
Masaki sniffed a bit with her hand wiping her nose, which made Ichirou roll his eyes for his sister's terrible acting and then she asked with her wide glittering eyes ''M-m-may I sleep with you and daddy tonight?''
Rukia couldn't reject this request with how Masaki was looking at her and what had just happened. She sighed ''Sure, why not? Come my little sunshine, you still have to sleep or else you will not get any presents from Santa Claus.''
Masaki made a face by hearing Santa's name, but Rukia didn't think much of it.
''May Ichi-nii come with me too, please?''
Rukia looked at Ichiro ''Do you want too?'' Ichiro nodded and Rukia gestured to him walk alongside with her. He stood up and walked already towards his parent's room and Rukia followed him by carrying Masaki.
Rukia told him to lay in their bed already and walked to the room where the twins and her husband were.
She stood in front of the room and whispered to Ichigo who was already walking towards the door that he would have to do the last things downstairs as Masaki wasn't letting go of her mother.
He nodded. ''Is she alright?'' He couldn't go to her with Yoshiro who was already falling asleep in his arms, so Rukia told him to stay there and she would go and check.
Rukia nodded ''Just a little bit shocked, she had a nightmare which made her scared and cry.'' Ichigo stroked his daughter's sandy brown curls to calm her down but she still held tight to her mother and didn't turn towards her father of whom she thought that was bad Santa Claus.
''That's why she and Ichiro will be sleeping in our room. Ichiro woke up too, hearing her cry and tried to comfort her and so she asked if they could stay at our room.''
Ichigo nodded, proud of how his son tried to comfort his little sister and if it would help his daughter to calm down, then she could sleep between him. If only he knew what really made his children act like that.''
''You go into our room, I will handle it downstairs.''
''You will be alright?''
''Relax Rukia, I can handle it. Don't think that I'm that hopeless.''
Rukia turned her head into the air ''Hmm, you could have fooled me.''
Ichigo rolled his eyes at that and started to walk downstairs and his wife turned to her husband's old room, which they now shared whenever they stayed at her father-in-law's house.
And their two oldest children, well they were happy to see their father enter the room in his own clothes which made them think that their real father was back, and they fell asleep.
Christmas morning
Ichigo and Rukia were awakened by the sound of Isshin, who woke them up as a little child screaming that it was Christmas. Ichigo mumbled something about old men who were acting more childishly then his youngest two children and they all started to walk out of their room, when they noticed that their two oldest already had left the room. They picked up the twins who were already awake and singing something in a mix of the normal language and their own baby language. The parents then brushed their teeth whilst helping the little ones to brush their little teeth too.
They started to walk downstairs and first made a bottle for both Kaien and Yoshiro and then walked towards the living room.
There they saw Isshin, Karin, Yuzu sitting around the tree with Ichiro and Masaki sitting at each side of Isshin. Everyone still had their pajamas on and they would change after breakfast.
They walked towards the tree and sat down. Kaien at Ichigo's lap and Yoshiro at Rukia's drinking their bottles, as they were now little they didn't understand the concept of Christmas, but both Rukia and Ichigo knew that when they would get any older, then they couldn't wait to open their presents.
What all the adults noticed was how Ichiro and Masaki weren't waiting excitingly to open their presents.
Ichigo raised an eyebrow and handed them their gifts and gestured to open them. Though Masaki clearly wanted to open it, Ichiro didn't which made his sister control herself to open it.
Ichigo gave his father and his sisters a look, clearly asking what was wrong, but they all looked just as clueless as he and his wife did. Rukia then looked at her oldest.
''Ichiro, what's wrong honey? Why aren't you and your sister opening your gifts?''
Ichiro scowled a bit ''We don't want too.''
''Why not? Santa Claus brought you these gifts.''
''We don't want any gifts from Santa Claus.''
''Yeah, Shanta Chan is meannn!'' His sister piped in.
Now everyone was confused by this behavior and looked at each other.
''Why would you say that? You guys adore that guy, even bake cookies for him. Then why is he suddenly so mean?'' Ichigo asked.
Masaki then looked at him convinced ''Because Shanta-chan and mommy kissed!''
Now there was a long silent scene with all the shocked adults and Isshin who controlled his laughter.
Karin looked amused ''What did you say, mommy and Shanta-chan kissed?''
Ichiro nodded ''Yes, Santa Claus used his magic to look like daddy and then they kissed.''
Isshin then asked how they knew that he used his magic to which Ichiro responded that they saw his otou-san in a Santa Claus-outfit and now Isshin and Karin couldn't hold it anymore and they started to laugh. Yuzu had to smile too, but pitied both Ichigo and Rukia who became red from all the blushing.
Rukia gave her husband a look which said that he was so dead and he replied by giving her a look which said that she was in it just as much as he was.
Ichirou and Masaki were confused seeing how their grandfather and aunts were laughing and Ichigo interrupted them.
''Well kids, that wasn't Santa Clause, but it was me.''
The children looked confused ''Was that you daddy? And not Shanta-chan?''
Ichigo nodded and the children looked more and more confused. ''But why were you wearing a Santa Claus-outfit then?''
This made Ichigo speechless and he started to think of an answer, looking at his wife for help, but she looked just as speechless as he was.
Isshin taking pity at the couple answered for them ''Well, my darling grandbabies, as you know how Santa is really busy…'' Both children nodded and both parents were scared for what he was going to say ''So, that's why daddy filled in for Santa Claus. You see, Santa Claus gave one of his outfits to daddy and that's why daddy had to come in that outfit, so he could deliver all the presents here.''
Masaki stood up and wrapped her arms around Isshin's neck with her eyes wide open ''Does that mean that Daddy is Shanta-chan?''
Isshin hugged his granddaughter back ''Well, I wouldn't say that, he's more like a substitute Santa Claus.'' Isshin winked with his eyebrows towards his son when he said the words substitute and Ichigo mumbled something that said from substitute Shinigami to substitute Santa Claus. But he was still thankful for his father saving him and his wife.
Masaki broke the hug of and turned towards her father and seeing the look in her eyes he quickly passed Kaien over to Karin just in time before Masaki ran right into his arms.
''Wow daddy, you are so cool! You are a Shanta-chan too, I love you daddy!''
''I love you too, sweetheart.''
Rukia then interrupted them ''But my sweet sunshine, you may not tell anyone about this, this has to stay a secret.''
Masaki looked at her mother with a serious expression and nodded ''I promish on Chappy's name not to tell anyone.''
Ichigo for once was happy for the importance of that damn rabbit, if his children would tell Byakuya, he would be sliced in a thousand pieces by Senbonzakura. Even after being married and having four children, Byakuya still gave him the creeps and whenever he found out that Rukia was pregnant, he would give Ichigo a look which told him how he dared to defile his sister. Sure, the men was good with the children, but still…
He already knew that in two months when Byakuya would find out that his sister was pregnant again, he would have to face that look again.
''Now that that's settled, why don't we all open our presents and then start our delicious breakfast that oba Yuzu has made?''
Everyone cheered at Rukia's suggestion and they let the children start first with their presents. The adults helped Kaien and Yoshiro opening their presents and later it was their turn. Everyone was happy with their presents and after opening their presents, eating breakfast, everyone started to get ready and Ichigo and Rukia helped the children getting ready right before their oji-sama Byakuya would come.
When they were finished, Masaki and Ichirou ran downstairs to play with Karin and Toshiro, who came to visit Karin and brought gifts for the children.
Ichigo took Kaien and Yoshiro downstairs to drop them at his father, so he and his wife could get ready.
When he returned to their room he saw her putting her outfit together for what she would be wearing later today and he walked towards her to wrap his arms around her waist from behind.
''You know what we should do to quickly get ready?''
Rukia turned around and shoved him away ''I already know what you are going to say, Kurosaki Ichigo and my answer is no.''
Ichigo looked confused ''What, why?''
Rukia made a thinking face ''Oh, I don't know. Maybe because our children saw us yesterday night already?'' She mocked at him.
Ichigo chuckled ''But that has been solved already. Besides, they always see us kiss each other.''
Rukia sighed ''It's not just that, Ichigo. Who knows what they would have seen if we had been carried away and they thought that I kissed another men beside you!''
Ichigo knew what his wife was telling him and he stepped closer to her to wrap his arms around her ''Look, we will be more careful. It was just that yesterday we thought that they already were asleep and that's why we we carried away. But let's be honest, Rukia. We would not have been carried away. The house was too full to get carried away. That old goat-chin could have come from his office every minute, Yuzu was in the kitchen and Karin could have entered any time too.
Rukia knew that he was right and she wrapped her arms around his neck and leaned with her head against his chest ''Fine, you are right, just for this once.''
Ichigo rolled his eyes ''Che, whatever you say. So what do you think about that solution of me to get ready quicker?''
''Fine, we can shower together. But it's only going to be showering and nothing else. I don't want nii-sama to wait for us and to know what we have been doing.''
''Trust me, Neither do I think that it's your brother's business. Besides… I will have you at night.''
''Oh really, my dear husband?''
''Yes, my dear wife. The kids will be asleep and I want to celebrate the good news you have shared with me yesterday.'' And just as he said that, he caressed her belly with his hand. The belly was flat for now, but in a few months it will be a swollen pregnant belly and after four children he still couldn't get enough of a pregnant Rukia. Well, he never could get enough of her no matter in what state she was, but he loved knowing, seeing and feeling his wife carry their children inside her, children that were part him and part her.
She had to smile at his gesture and put her hand on top of his.
''What do you say of taking that shower now?''
He smiled ''Sure, but first…'' And he kissed her to which she kissed him back, which made them share a passionate kiss. They broke apart and gasped to take a breath.
''Merry Christmas, Rukia.''
''Merry Christmas, Ichigo.''
Merry Christmas to all you. I hope you liked it and please leave your reviews for me. Also, I would like you to read my other oneshot which I wrote for Isshin's birthday and please review that too.
I will continue this collection and I hope you all like this and once again, I'm sorry for my grammar mistakes. Please bear with me…
Note: I edited it a bit on December 26, 2016
