Chapter 6: Please Be All Right

Am I supposed to be happy?
With all I ever wanted, it comes with a price.
Am I supposed to be happy?
With all I ever wanted, it comes with a price.
You said, you said that you would die for me.

Kurotsuchi Mayuri slammed his fist into wall behind him; his fist was deeply imbedded into the said wall. Yamamoto sat in his high backed and elegant chair silently, his eyes glazed over as if he was lost in some kind of trans while in truth he was losing his self, his death was drawing near. The sounds of the angry captain of the 12th Division did not bother the old man or maybe it was because he did not hear it.

Either way, Kurotsuchi screamed jerked his hand out of the wall. Making his way to the front, he slammed his pale and bloody hand upon Yamamoto's chair and glaring at the captains of the 10th and 6th Division.

"How could you lose him?" Mayuri demanded as he stared at the captains that stood in front of him and the dying Commander. "You had him! You hadKurosaki within your grasp! He could have led us to that damn woman!" he screeched.

Byakuya narrowed his eyes as Mayuri spoke about his sister and her husband. But knew better then to say anything, at least for now. Toshiro shifted his weight to the his left, "With all due respects, Taicho, Kurosaki is not the most easiest person to capture especially when he is unwilling." The young captain held his ground firmly as Mayuri stared at him with a heavy snarl. The captains where lucky at the moment, if Mayuri was in control he would of slammed his fist into the boys mouth. But he wasn't there yet, he wasn't at the top but he would be, very, very soon.

"Then you make him willing! I want that vizard!" the captain of the 12th division screamed. Then, all went silent as they heard an old man cough, they all looked to Yamamoto then who had put a hand to cover his mouth, the old man leaned back in his seat as if he had just arrived.

"Vizard's." started the old man, "Are the enemy." A long pause came as Mayuri smirked and moved to stand behind the chair, his eyes looking at the two captains with malice. "We will…take them…and…" His voice became nothing but mutters and then suddenly became loud. "Bring them here, bring the Vizard! We…we…we will see…what…he…is…Kurosaki!"

Mayuri chuckled as he appeared on the other side of the chair, peering out at the other captains in a limp like fashion. "Bring the Kurosaki's to us." Mayuri then narrowed his eyes at the two captains as they started to leave. Mayuri said nothing to stop them. He waited until the captains where gone and he turned to his right, watching his daughter taking a step towards him from the shadows.

Mayuri regarded her for a moment before speaking, his eyes looking back to where the captains had disappeared. "Keep an eye on them, when they return to the world of the living. I want to know what's going on."

Byakuya walked down one of the many ramps within Seireitei, Toshiro was beside him, walking at his own pace. Finally, after a moment the white haired boy spoke. "How is Soifon?"

"She'll live but she will be out of commission for about two months. She is not very pleased with herself let alone how the mission went." Byakuya stated mildly. Toshiro nodded as he slides his hands into his pockets. "So, what are we going to do now?"

Byakuya was silent as Toshiro asked that question, the boy sighed and shook his head. "I see." The boy turned to his left as he started down a separate path, "I'm going to go and start on those reports. I'll be seeing you then." Toshiro raised one hand in farewell and disappeared. Byakuya merely watched him for a moment and started towards his own department.

Once he was there, he wished he went somewhere else first for as soon as he opened his office door, his fukutaicho was in his face so suddenly it made him jerk back. Renji looked at his captain carefully with narrowed eyes.

"Are we…?" Renji started, Byakuya was silent and Renji let out a sigh as Byakuya suddenly realized Renji's arms were full of paperwork. The tattooed male moved over to Byakuya's desk and dropped the paperwork upon it with a sigh.

"That's a relief." Renji said. "I didn't feel like goin' back there an' tryin' ta take Ichigo. I mean, Rukia is so close ta ya know, givin' birth an' he needs to be there for her. Then we had to go down there an' try to take him away an' put those things on him." Renji turned and leaned against Byakuya's desk, crossing his arms over his chest.

"An' now he can't even…"

"He is a vizard."

"Don't give me that bullshit, ya know ya are concerned, if not for Ichigo then for Rukia!" Renji snapped at his captain. Renji looked shocked for a moment and cleared his throat as Byakuya cleared the room with a shunpo and sat at his desk.

"Taicho." Renji said as he realized what he said, remembering that Rukia was indeed Byakuya's sister as well as sister in law. The man had bent the rules for his deceased wife and for Rukia.

"Don't you have things to do, Fukutaicho."

Renji flinched, "H-Hai." He said and made his way to his own desk with a sigh. His mind wondered and he feared for the next mission he knew that was coming, to take away all the rights that belong to Ichigo and Rukia.

--

Ichigo was lying on his mat within the Urahara Shoten, his eyes where staring up at the ceiling. He was so tired and he had trouble keeping his eyes open as he felt his reiatsu leaving his body and entering these damn bands upon his body. It had only been a week since Rukia was forced to leave his side.

Slowly, he lifted his shinigami clad arm over his eyes and recalled the conversation that took place a week ago:

"She will be staying at your fathers." Urahara said as he left Ichigo sitting on the floor of the Shoten with Kon. "She will be safe there, they do not have her reiatsu pinned like they do yours. Your father is also a doctor and she will be in good hands when the time comes for the child to be born."

Ichigo said nothing as Urahara said in a singsong voice so suddenly as he darted through a hallway, "Oh Rukia!"

This had left Ichigo with Kon who was still in Ichigo's gigai. It was silent for a long time but Kon had broken that silence. "I won't let anything happen to her."

This had captured Ichigo's attention as he looked towards a very serious Kon with arms crossed over his chest. "Though I am not you and there is no way I could ever be, I will still protect her with my life. Nothing will hurt Neesan, I will do everything in my power to keep her and your child safe, Ichigo."

Kon was looking straight ahead as he was finishing his sentence, Ichigo did not know what to say but a small smile came to his features, "Thanks." He said at last and lean his head against the wall.

With a moan, Ichigo rolled over on his side and then feeling irritated he got up and reached for Zangetsu that was resting beside him, as soon as he touched it he heard the blade speak to him, "This is not a good idea."

"Shut up, Old Man." Ichigo muttered as he moved across the Shoten, heading towards the exit. He couldn't sit here within the Shoten any longer, Ichigo had to go out.

"Ichigo." Rukia said softly as she held on to the orange haired vizard. Though he said nothing he wrapped his arms around his midget wife. "Promise me you wont do anything stupid."

"Of course I wont." He told her softly, "As long as you don't do anything stupid either." Ichigo told her with a chuckle and Rukia punched him in the chest then. "I am being serious!"

The vizard jumped across a roof and then another and another. He stopped on a building that belonged to a radio station. He paused for a moment and then shunpoed across three buildings. It wasn't a very good shunpo but it was hard to perform with these bands on his body. God, he was so good at shunpo, if he could only figure out how to remove the bands.

"Ichigo." Zangetsu said within his mind, "You are being reckless."

"Shut up!"

"He isn't goin' to listen to you, Pigeon." The hollow said within Ichigo's mind and joining the conversation. "He is too big headed anyways."The hollow went on with an insane chuckle.

"Shut up, both of you." Huffed Ichigo as he came to a stop upon a building, catching his breath. Gah, these bands where going to kill him at this rate, he needed his reiatsu. He would have to have it to protect Rukia.

"Yo King," Hichigo started as Ichigo could feel him stir inside but made no attempts to do anything. "Did you run all the way here just to watch the woman dress?" Ichigo blinked and was about to ask him what his hollow meant when his eyes fell to the window that belonging to his bedroom within the Kurosaki Clinic. Standing near his window, with her back turned was Rukia, getting dressed for the long day ahead.

Ichigo stared.

"Pervert." He heard his hollow mutter.

--

"You know," started Urahara, "That was a very dangerous thing to do, Ichi-kun." The man shook his fan at Ichigo but grinned all the while as Ichigo was leaning against a rock within the underground room of the Urahara Shoten.

"I had to see her." Ichigo said in his own defense.

"Naked?" Leave it to Urahara to make something so serious perverted as hell. Ichigo's face turned pink slightly, "Shut up you pervert, I wanted to make sure she was alright is all!" Ichigo snapped as he slipped his hands into the sleeves of his hoari. "I am just afraid that they are going to come and find her. I have to protect her."

"I believe you're the one marked." Urahara chuckled. "Oh, the years of youth, how I miss them and soon the cries of children. Tell me, have you picked out a name for the child?"

Silence.

"That's what I was afraid of." Urahara sighed with a shake of his head. "Almost eight months and not even name. Poor child, have no fear! I shall name thee!" Urahara said happily and then announced, "Urahara the second!"

The dear shopkeeper was then nailed on the top of the head by a covered Zangetsu. "When hell freezes over!" Ichigo snapped. "My son or daughter will have name that will bring pride to the family!"

"Like Strawberry?"

Whop!

"Nothing food related!" The twenty-year-old Ichigo snapped with irritation. He groaned so suddenly that he fell to his knees. Zangetsu fell into the floor and Urahara blinked as he watched the boy fall over. With a frown, Urahara shook his head, "You are being to active. Kurosaki-kun, you are feeding those bonds and the more you need them the more weak you feel."

Urahara watched the boy as Ichigo huffed and puffed, rolling over on to his back, "You need to try not be active and reverse whatever reiatsu you can."

The battle was far from over and Urahara knew it. Seireitei would come back once they had a plan and when they felt was the right time. But Urahara was concerned about that, it had been a week since Ichigo had been attacked and Seireitei had went silent and he could not help but wonder, what they where waiting for when Ichigo was already starting to become weak, wouldn't now be the correct time to attack and take him?

Or did they have other plans?

[A/N I had a little trouble on this chapter, I had so many ideas I did not know which way to go so I kinda tried to blend them all together and through a little more humor into the story. But I hope you enjoyed this chapter and the corny little jokes! Its getting close for Rukia to have the child but what gender should it be? Male or Female? Im not sure which, what do you think?

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