[A/N:] If you listen to Cute by Stephen Jerzak I'll post another chapter after this one!

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Chapter 7 .:This and That With Bee and Cat:.

Soi snarled at the bumbling group of idiots in front of her. 'They call this training?'

"Train harder! Work faster!" She shouted, and the group picked up speed and the clashes of swords became more obvious.

'Hopeless…'

'At least they're trying.'

'Yeah, I guess.'

Zhuo hopped onto the banister Soi's left foot was propped up against. Soi glanced at her over her arm which was pressed into her heightened knee.

"You could knock these guys out no problem couldn't you Zhuo?" She whispered. The cat mewled and brushed up against her leg.

"Yeah, you could." The captain mumbled, turning her eyes back to the large group.

'Ugh, enough of this.' Soi turned, "Keep them at this for another two hours!" She barked at Omaeda.

Soi walked back inside as the lieutenant stuttered out his response.

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Yoruichi lay curled up in a tight ball on her bed. Her arms clutched tight around her stomach. 'How am I supposed to take care of a child I can't speak to?'

'Talk then.'

'No…this is one promise I can keep…and I plan on keeping it. I'll just have to improvise someway.'

Yoruichi sat up with her arms still around her stomach. 'I wonder what they'll look like.'

'You obviously.'

'No need for attitude!'

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Soi scratched Zhuo's ears as she lay on her bed staring lazily at the ceiling. She skipped on training today. She just didn't feel like it.

She felt very detached lately. 'What is the matter with me?' She sighed.

Suzumebachi stayed silent oddly enough.

"What to do what to do." She mumbled. "I wonder how Yoruichi is doing…good I hope."

The captain sighed again. She was still angry at Yoruichi, very angry. Unlike humans Shinigami lived long enough to hold a grudge. Life was long enough to stay angry, it was never to short.

"Right now I'd have to say I'm more annoyed with what she did than angry." Soi commented. Zhuo mewled and returned to purring happily.

Soi rolled onto her side still cradling the cat. "…I wonder if it's because you live in Soul Society that you've lived so long." The captain whispered. Zhuo mewled and closed her eyes.

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Yoruichi sat on her couch, staring out the window with a blank face. When she had gone to the doctor he had said she was already two months along. She was now well into the third month and was just starting to show.

'…Maybe I should go back to Kisuke's…'

'Couldn't hurt.'

'Would he even help me after how I treated him? Not that he didn't deserve it for all his meddling.'

'You need help. If he really cares he'll help you.'

Yoruichi stood from the couch and walked to her room. 'Back to Kisuke's then.'

'That's a girl.'

Yoruichi pulled out the bag she had first used to leave Kisuke's. 'Just take what I need then.'

She packed what she needed for the few hour trip and left the apartment.

'Not paying rent?' her Zanpakuto snickered.

'Oh hush!'

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Kisuke was sitting at his small table in the room just beyond the shop. He was recounting his inventory charts and continued to sigh every now and then.

"Boss…" Tessai called to him from the front of the shop.

"What is it?" He was annoyed now…he couldn't concentrate and now it was worse.

"Come see for yourself."

Kisuke sucked his teeth and stood. He snapped open the door to the shop. "What is it, you better have a good…" he stepped down the small step and stopped short.

A violet haired women in an orange jacket and black pants with a backpack slung over her shoulder stood in the doorway.

"…Yoruichi?"

The woman nodded once.

"Where…why are you…what's going on?"

Yoruichi just stared at him.

"Ah…come on, come on in here."

The woman followed him back into the small living room and dropped her bag beside the table. Tessai shuffled through the room, closing doors behind him

Yoruichi shrugged off her jacket and Kisuke saw her stomach.

"What the…what the hell have you been doing!?"

The woman glared daggers at him and sat. Kisuke stared for a moment and followed her example.

"…So…where's the father?"

Yoruichi shrugged. She had no idea how it happened, only that thing that came when she was sleeping that had disappeared and she couldn't explain.

"…So what…you've been like…sleeping around?"

Yoruichi punched him hard in the shoulder.

"Ow!! Ow, I was only kidding!" The man held his bruised shoulder and stared at the woman in front of him.

There was a long silence. "…I don't know what to ask or what to say…" Kisuke spoke quietly.

Yoruichi sighed. 'I won't talk…what would I possibly say anyway?'

"Well! No need to worry Yoruichi! We'll help you out!" Kisuke declared.

Yoruichi smiled her thanks and nodded.

"So…how've you been?" Kisuke asked curiously.

Yoruichi motioned for him to bring her something to write with and paper.

Kisuke brought it over and set it in front of her.

She scribbled something out and Kisuke took the paper. "Confused, bored, scared, okay…all in all I've been better, huh?" He read out her response.

Yoruichi nodded.

"I see. Well…we're gunna help you out. Your old room is still available. You can get set up and carry on as usual."

Yoruichi smiled her thanks again.

"And…when are you planning on talking?"

The woman motioned for him to hand her back the paper. She wrote out her answer and Kisuke leaned in to look at it.

"…If you ever go back to Soul Society…I see."

Yoruichi nodded and grabbed her back. She stood and walked to the stairs and up to her room. She snapped the door shut behind her.

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Soi stared out of her window. She lay on her stomach with Zhuo on her back.

She watched the rain from her bed.

"…I fail to understand…" She whispered.

'What do you mean?'

"I just feel…weird…I don't understand it is all."

'Hmm…I don't know either.'

"I didn't expect you to."

'Yowza! Attitude!'

"Oh shut up."

Suzumebachi chuckled and went silent.

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Yoruichi lay on her back, hand on her stomach. 'What to do what to do…'

'You're gunna get faaaaat.'

'SHUT UP!!'


[A/N:] Sorry it took so long for an update. I was really depressed for a while there.