This is a fan fiction. I do not own Bleach in any form.
The following morning Ichigo woke up and gave her beloved wife a sweet and tender kiss on her lips. She woke up to her beloved husband giving her a kiss, so in her books that was the start of a good day. She sat down and watched as her husband prepared their breakfast. It was all in the agreed rules of the house, they each took turns cooking the meals of the day. There was none of the typical wife's duty to take care of the home nonsense.
They helped each other in everything that they needed and did not even flinch when it was something that they did not enjoy, Rangiku hated organizing reports with a passion, but she helped her husband finishing the new batch of reports that would go to the research and development division. The month before that he helped her doing the budget and trying to keep the household expenses down.
Rangiku knew that she had a bit of a shopping habit, and he told her that if they purchased things in the human world, they could find things much, and I mean much cheaper than they were in the soul society. She did not believe him, but it was true. She bought a few change of clothes for both of them, why did humans have soul reaper uniforms it was simply unheard of but they did have all the pieces for a complete uniform. She bought several for herself, and her husband, and finally a set of silky lingerie to spice up the love making on the nights they had energy to do that.
All in all the whole shopping was done with a fraction of the amount she would normally spend. That was when it hit her, the idea that would make their home financially secure. The people of Rukongai always complained that they had to wear rags because the clothes were too expensive. So Rangiku bought a wide array of clothes and she priced them the double the cost in the human world.
When the Kurosaki clothes for the ordinary person opened up. The people saw the prices the merchandise was bought in matter of minutes. The shop had to close for the day, because everything was sold. The following day there was a line four blocks long waiting for the shop to open. She quite literally had to ask Urahara if their was a way to set up a supply line for the shop, and sure enough there was, but he wanted two percent of all sales to fund his research division.
Rangiku agreed and he told her that she could charge triple the human price and it would still be a bargain. They shop did not sell anything that could be sold as a uniform for anyone working in one of the division or the support personnel. She did not want to upset the shops that sold those items, if she did sell them they would cause a riot to make the shop go under.
In a matter of weeks there was very little difference between how people in Rukongai and the human world dressed. This gave the people in the soul society a much needed lift in morale, and the situation of the people in Rukongai was slowly and surely improving. With a better feeling of their lives, other people began to open businesses of their own, jobs were created, and what was once considered a slum, became their home town that each soul was very proud of living in.
Ichigo on the other hand spent most of his free time to either train or continue to investigate the increase of hollows in the human world, he was sure that someone was helping the hollows enter the human world, the reason was not known, but Karazaki said that the reason was to make the hollows stronger, but that did not make sense, why would anyone want the hollows to be stronger than they already were.
Captain Commander Yamamoto heard his suspicions and that worried him more than he was willing to show, so much so that he assigned several of the research division and the scout division to help him with his investigations. This of course had the expected result of upsetting Aizen since the investigation would mean he would have to stop allowing hollows to feed on humans, and that was going to slow down his plans.
Captain Yamamoto was very clear that no one doing the investigation was to mention that there was a possible soul reaper orchestrating the increase of hollows in the human world. The sheer suspicion would cause the soul reapers to start distrusting each other, and blaming each other for being the suspicious traitor. Ichigo understood the reason, he did not like it, but he understood the reason.
As the investigation progressed it was clear that a high ranking soul reaper must be the one doing it, his investigation team came up with the idea that maybe, just maybe the traitor wanted to evolve hollows faster and to have as any of them out of hueco mundo so that he could do something without interruptions. Ichigo did not like the sound of that, he knew vasto lordes were not something to take lightly one of them could wipe out an entire division.
Yachiru took up the habit of always being on Ichigo's shoulder whenever she was close to him, he had no clue why the girl he cared about as a niece would do that, but it did mean that he would have some company during the many hours of the investigation. Karazaki was no help, he laughed as he saw his little girl so happy. Rangiku was as always busy taking care of the paper work in Isshin's division and she sometimes thought about her husband and dreamed of the possibility of having a child of their own.
Unohana told her that pregnancy was something that would change her life forever. The pain of childbirth was something so severe, that she would never be the same after feeling it. She joked and told her that how could she know that? She has been single since she met her. Unohana laughed and said that she should be grateful that she was, because if she had decided to she would be the one being single at this very moment.
"What? You actually had feelings for my husband!?" Unohana told her why wouldn't she have feelings, for a tough, skilled, handsome and caring guy like Ichigo, she actually fell in love with him around the time he became captain. But it was pretty clear that he lover someone else, making sure to point in her direction, so she would not prevent Ichigo from following his own heart.
Rangiku understood the message and told her that she was happy with Ichigo, and wanted this time to last forever, but deep down she also had seen how Ichigo was with Yachiru, and that made her think it would be wonderful if he was like that with their own kids. Unohana continued her examination of Rangiku and asked how many children would she want? Rangiku told her no less than three.
Unohana joked with her that if she kept doing what she did with her husband, there would be no problem at all for her to have those three kids. This made her assistant and Rangiku blush. "What is true, this shows that significant residual spiritual energy in her body, and there are only three ways that could happen, a kido from an attacker, one from a healer, and the last during sex. And I would be examining a corpse of the foul that either rapes her or tries to kill her. Captain Kurosaki would kill him faster than I can blink."
"Well, yes my husband tends to be a little protective of me, and he is head of the combat division. But I am not defenseless, I can fight too." The aide told her that nobody doubted her ability to fight. "Everything looks fine from my exam results, and you have good vital signs, so not much stress in your home life, which is unheard of in a new marriage."
"My darling husband and I work thing out before they get worse, and we share in all our household duties." That was when the aide dropped the tray she was holding. "Say, what!? he does things around the house on top of being a Captain and all that paperwork!? I knew my husband was lazy but this is just proves it, he is a slacker." Unohana again said that she was in a situation that was unheard of by most marriages.
"Well he said that he helps me because he loves me and I help him sometimes too sort reports, I don't see why your aide reacted like that." Unohana told her she just got done with their honeymoon phase, and they clearly did not work things out like she did with her husband. That was obvious as she walked out of the room and heard the aide screaming something awful to another doctor.
"I should do something, to thank him for being so considerate, I had no idea that I was being treated differently." Rangiku decided to make for him his favorite dinner, and wear that perfume he bought for her. "To think that I went for a check up and ended up learning how considerate my husband was too. I guess I just got used to him wanting my point of view on a few of the things around our home. I wonder how would our lives change if we had a few kids..."
"Well for starters, we would have to take turns in the night time feeding, changing and cleaning of the kids, so we might not get as much sleep as we do now, and the kids would mean that our budget would need to be planned out all over again. Then the other we would have to child proof our home, and deal with behavior problems, and more frequent visits to the doctors, kids do get sick quite a bit, and finally their diets as soon as they can eat solid food."
Rangiku turned around and saw her husband smiling face, and she kissed him as he finished telling what he believed would change. Ichigo kissed her back and took hold of her and placed some small kisses on her face, neck and ears. "But as always what do you think would change?" Rangiku told him that it was pretty much what he said, and the only thing she mentioned was that instead of using baby powder that they should use hypoallergenic wipes, prevent rashes and other discomforts.
"Well that aside, why are we talking about child care and what smells so good?" Rangiku told him that the doctor told her she should consider talking about this, since they could end up having a kid, considering how many times they made love, and what smelled nice was dinner, so she told him to wash up and get his plate, cause dinner was now ready. "Done and Done, but before you say it, since you cooked it, I will take care of the dish washing."
Rangiku could not help it she simply smiled as her husband sat down and passed her his plate. As she was serving him his food, she asked him a simple question, and the question was, "Why are you always so considerate of me?" Ichigo took his plate and smiled, "That one is easy to answer, cause I love you."
As the couple at their meal they both talked about how was their day, Ichigo about his investigation and Rangiku about her division and her visit to the doctor, he was not surprised by Unohana's words at all. What he told her was simple, the decision on how many kids they would have was hers, and even when she became pregnant, he would support whatever she decided.
Rangiku told him in a teasing tone that maybe he would change that answer if she said that she wanted to get started now. "Then we just have to wait for the day you are ovulating and I am there." Rangiku laughed and told him she was kidding, but Ichigo was very serious about it. "I love you, Rangiku, I will wait till you feel it's the right moment for us to start our family."
Little did they know that night the birth control pills would not work and Rangiku would ended up pregnant not with one but three little boys, the happy couple would find that out a few days after, since Rangiku saw breakfast and ran towards the bathroom feeling nauseous. This made Ichigo call Unohana who indeed told them that she was pregnant, and the couple began asking her if what they should do?
Unohana did what she did when a couple found out they were going to be parents, she gave them a lecture. Too bad Yachiru and Karazaki just walked into the living room as she began the lecture, they both waited till the lecture was over, and that was when Yachiru jumped on Ichigo's back, and jumped up and down really happy. saying that she was happy that she was going to have a cousin. Karazaki simply smiled at seeing his little girl so happy.
Aizen looked at Gin's smiling face and asked him if he was happy about the result after switching her birth control pills, for fake ones? Gin told him that now that his wife was pregnant that could possibly delay to a grinding halt his investigation and Aizen like that. "Not the way I would have chosen, but well done, Gin. well done." Gin bowed in an exaggerated way and smiled at him, "All in service of you, your majesty."
Aizen was happy to know his plan could continue at a much faster pace, and that his subordinate was as loyal as ever. Little did they know that Ichigo would continue to investigate and would one day find out the truth behind the evil plan by Aizen and the real reason why Gin switched those birth control pills. But for today Ichigo and Rangiku were happy to hear that they would in nine months they would be parents.