Unexpected Kingdom

A/N: Welcome to the last chapter of Unexpected Kingdom, loyal readers. I hope you enjoyed the ride and keep an eye out because I'll eventually give this a re-edit and fix any mistakes and probably add content, but if I do so, I'll add an Epilogue and leave a note to let you guys know I've changed things.

A couple people have noted similarities between this story and my new Alpha/Beta titled Extraneous Variables. EV is basically an alternative universe of this fic at the request of a fan of that story. I am collabing with them to tailor the new version to their liking. So if you see similarities, you are right. For now, on with the last chapter of UK! I will probably write a ten chapter sequel in the future.

Chapter Ten

Consort to three Kings

Ichigo was awakened by kisses. It was pleasant and comfortable. A need was coiling inside him that had to be answered. He'd chosen, and now he would give them what they desired, a chance at becoming the sire to the most powerful arrancar to be born in the last few hundred years. The instincts were coiling and burning through him. He groaned and felt lips everywhere it seemed. He was warm and felt so very good. He moaned out loud and opened his eyes finally to lock on with viridian ones. Ulquiorra was kneeling over him, hands on either side of his head, knees on either side of his waist. He grinned at the previously emotionless espada. He was definitely no longer emotionless, though Ichigo was sure that he would be the only one to see the things that played across his eyes as he stared down in his brown ones.

"This is so weird," Ichigo said, sighing.

"The whole bearing cubs thing?" Grimmjow said, untying the obi at his waist and sliding his fingers under the hakama under it.

Ichigo moaned as he felt Starrk's hands slip over his chest and pinch his nipples gently. He blinked and looked up past Ulquiorra's face and saw Starrk sitting on his knees at his head, his hands roaming under the kusodo. "Mi amor," Starrk said. "It is natural, you will see. The hollow, it has no gender, it is only instinct."

By now, Ulquiorra was tired of being ignored and he leaned down and locked his lips onto Ichigo's with a groan of satisfaction as he began to plunder his mouth in earnest. When they'd been together before, he didn't have this intensity, but now he was intent it seemed on exploring every inch of Ichigo's mouth with his tongue. Starrk grinned over the smallest of their number at Grimmjow who had locked eyes with him. Grimmjow grinned and finished stripping the clothing off the writhing beta. They knew that the instinct to be knotted was roiling inside him, the need to take the final step with his alphas…

Grimmjow dropped to his chest on the floor, as they were among the massive pillows belonging to Starrk at the moment, and pulled both Ichigo's legs up and over his shoulders as he moved and swallowed him in one swift motion to the base. There was a choked sound from him but Grimmjow merely hummed as his fingers slipped in underneath and into his warm heat. The bucking of his hips involuntarily told Grimmjow all he needed to know. Before long, he had three fingers buried in him and he was getting harder and harder to keep still. He pulled away and moved upward, yanking his body downward from underneath Ulquiorra's. Ulquiorra moved with him, keeping his mouth on his he moved. Starrk grinned and moved around behind Grimmjow.

Ichigo was panting already and it was obvious his mind was not in reality but consumed with lust and desire. Grimmjow gripped him by the hips, pulling him backward into his lap and without warning burying himself all the way into his warmth. Ichigo's head flopped back and he gasped as Ulquiorra moved and dropped down and took him completely in his mouth this time, working his throat around him until he was whimpering in need. Starrk smiled and reached around Grimmjow and began to pet his chest and pinch his pert nipples that were becoming more and more sensitive. Ulquiorra had his hand gripped on the base of his cock though, staving off the orgasm that was threatening to overtake the beta completely.

Grimmjow whispered hoarsely in his ear, "Relax, my pet. The knot will hurt a bit, I'm feline, remember, so, just be still and do not move too much."

Ichigo took a moment to think and said suddenly, "What?" as a swelling took place in the base of Grimmjow's member and something pricked painfully inside him. He squirmed and gasped at the increase in the pain. "What…what is that…" he said stilling against him.

Starrk petted him as Ulquiorra continued to lick at his flagging arousal, and then sucked him in as the hardness began the return. "Hush, mi amor, Grimmjow's mating won't last long, esta un gato, so there are spines when he mates, and mine may be uncomfortable too…but it will not last long. It is only because of los animales."

Ichigo nodded and found that whatever the barbs or spines or whatever they were pressing into was making him more aroused by the second. He began to moan as he felt a sudden and violent orgasm coming onto him. He had never felt anything so intense as he came hard down Ulquiorra's throat. He buried his hands in his black hair and panted hard as he felt Grimmjow explode inside him suddenly and blue reiatsu flared brightly around him. Thankfully the barbs retracted as quickly as they had emerged and the knot dissipated. Grimmjow pulled away and fell back into the pillows. Only once in his life had he done that, and his mate had died weeks afterward before the kits were born.

Just as quickly, Starrk had Ichigo pulled up from the floor and flipped on his stomach and slipped into him and let the building feeling swell over and the bulb swelled. Ichigo groaned, falling forward onto his forearms at the strange expanding sensation. Unlike Grimmjow, though, the knot was larger and wasn't spined. Ulquiorra moved around and lifted Ichigo's head and the beta looked up with fogged eyes for a second before opening his mouth and accepting him into his own mouth, sucking hard as Starrk moved in subtle ways that pressed against every right place inside him. Grimmjow was watching but he knew he was completely incapable of even thinking of doing anything for a while. Finally, the stimulation send Ichigo over again as the knot pressed against his already sensitive sweet spot. He swallowed convulsively, and Ulquiorra had to grip himself to hold on longer. Starrk let out a long drawn out moan and filled the beta, his own reiatsu exploding around them so strong that it sent even Ulquiorra reeling backward out of Ichigo's mouth.

Starrk groaned and held him up against him and pulled away. Immediately, Ulquiorra rolled him over to his back and latched his mouth on his neck and sunk his already throbbing arousal into the depths within the beta. Ichigo threw his head back and wondered what bats did when mating… He only noticed an increase in his size that made thrusting more difficult, it seemed, but that was all. Apparently bats don't knot like cats and dogs, Ichigo thought to himself as Ulquiorra's pace set him rocking. The friction against the quarta espada's body send him over for the third time, something he was impressed with to be honest, and Ulquiorra followed almost instantly, the green reiatsu flaring and slamming into him. Ichigo's eyes fluttered and he passed out completely, unable to keep his eyes or body awake any longer.

-oooooo-OOOOOO-ooooo-

Rukia came out of the shoten and nearly ran into Grimmjow, who was crouching beside the steps.

"What are you doing here?" she asked, frowning.

"Shhh!" he said, waving at her. "He doesn't know I'm here…"

"Grimmjow Jagerjaquez!" came Ichigo's voice and Grimmjow grimaced and looked up to see Starrk and Ichigo standing there.

Rukia began to snicker. The serious look on Ichigo's face in combination with the cowering sixth espada was too much for her. Not to mention the huge belly he was currently sporting in preparation for the birth of the cubs/kits/pups, whatever they were calling them, within the next few days.

"Ichigo, shouldn't you be back at Las Noches getting ready for the arrival?" she said, staring at him. He was wearing a longer version of his normal Kusodo.

He snorted. "I'm looking for him," he said, glaring at the blue haired espada. "He ran off…"

"Grimmjow," Rukia said, turning to him. "It is bad form to leave your very pregnant mate."

He snorted. "Well he won't quit nagging me, I had to get away for a little while!" he said, crossing his arms over his chest. "Thought I might stay with Getabishi for a while."

Ichigo glared at him. "You're just grumpy because I'm not in the mood for sex right now."

Rukia rubbed her head. "I really don't want to hear…"

"No, you want too much out of me!" he said. "I'm not gonna be a good father, let Starrk and Ulquiorra take care of them; you know I'm too violent."

Ichigo looked at him a long time. "That's what this is about?"

Grimmjow looked sheepish. "What do you mean?"

"You're nervous about being a father?" Ichigo said, moving forward and looking up at the taller arrancar. "You are going to do just fine, love. Don't worry."

"But what if I mess everything up; I mean I'm not exactly…" Grimmjow started.

"Cats are good parents, and if I have to put up with the stupid barbs on your cock, you are going to stick around for the kids that result from it!" Ichigo said staring at him for a long moment, voice brokering no arugment from his errant mate.

"I caught the last of that, something about 'barbs on your cock'?" Renji said, coming up beside Rukia.

Ichigo rolled his eyes. "He's a feline hollow. When he actually 'mates', he has barbs on the knot on his damn cock. Hurts like a bitch at first, too."

Renji nodded. "That's…something. Is he the only one that does weird shit?" he asked. Rukia slapped his arm and glared at him.

Ichigo shook his head. "Nah, this big ass bastard has a knot too, but at least it doesn't have barbs, and Ulqui just gets a lot bigger… But that only happens during the real mating, not during the fun sex."

Renji had an apple and took a bight. "So there's fun sex and mating sex?"

"Renji!" Rukia said, glaring at him harder. "It is not my interest to learn about Ichigo's sex life."

Renji shrugged. "What, I'm curious. I mean, not like I've ever had it up the ass to start with, then to have something with barbs on it…sounds not sexy."

"Yeah, but oh my gods, nothing beat the orgasm it gave me…good gods I thought I would never stop coming from whatever the hell those barbs were doing…" Ichigo said thoughtfully, chewing on his thumbnail.

Rukia paled. "Ew, ew, no details!" she said waving her hands.

Just then, a garganta opened and they looked up as Ulquiorra came down with a sonido. "The group from Soul Society has arrived, Ichigo. They're waiting for us."

Ichigo nodded and stomped over to where Grimmjow was still standing with his arms crossed and reached up and grabbed his ear and yanked him after him.

"Ichi! Ow, ow!" he complained, stumbling as the smaller male pulled him.

"You are coming home, and you are going to see your kit, and you are going to be a fine father, and if you do this again, I will definitely cut off your cock and put it in a jar to remind you of the fact you'll never get to fuck me again, got it?" he said, dragging him into the garganta.

"Ichi!" Grimmjow moaned as the garganta closed behind them. Starrk shook his head and waved at the shinigami who had come when they felt the arrancar enter the world of the living.

"What was that about?" Ishida said from beside the building.

"Grimmjow got cold feet and ran off. Ichigo was not happy," Renji said with a nod. "He was mad enough to threaten him with no sex."

Ishida grimaced. "That's definitely not…"

"Oh!" Urahara said coming out the door. "Ichigo's having the babies!"

Rukia frowned. "But he was just here!"

Urahara nodded. "Yes, yes, I guess the stress of going through the garganta triggered his labor, who wants to go with me? I've never seen this before!"

Before long, they were heading through the basement and into Hueco Mundo. Urahara, Yourichi, Renji, Rukia, Orihime, Chad and Ishida had all come for the event. As soon as they entered the compound they heard Ichigo yelling at one of his mates. Starrk came out and glanced at them.

"You are just in time, he is almost done berating us, and the birthing canal has formed," he said, leading them into a room that used to be used as Szayel's lab, but had been converted to a medical bay. Szayel was standing to the side.

Rukia looked at Ichigo who was pacing the room angrily. "Birth canal?" she asked.

Starrk smiled. "Yes, the hollow has no gender, so no way to birth, even the females have the appearance of organs but they are non-functional. The babies are created in a reiatsu chamber, and at birth, reiatsu creates a birthing canal in the body much like it created the reiatsu chamber to hold the babies."

Ichigo would stop every few moments to hold his burgeoning abdomen and groan. Then he'd continue to pace. He looked up and realized that his friends had come and he smiled then grimaced.

"Hey!" he said after a moment and then panted. "Come to watch the show?" he asked with a smirk.

Orihime went over and used her sun sun riki. "Oh, Ichigo, they're doing good, you haven't got much longer," she said with a smile.

"Good, because this fucking huuuurts…" he said, moaning the last as his body tensed. "I don't know if this is what human women feel…but fuuuuuck…"

Szayel came over and looked at the instruments. "It is similar. The difference is a human female's body is designed for birth. Your body is not. And your body is not entirely that of a hollow. So I don't know how much pain it will put you in."

Grimmjow came in with an armload full of blankets and pillows that he dumped near where Ichigo was standing. Ichigo glared at him.

"This is your fault, bastard!" he said. Grimmjow just looked at the floor. "You and your fuckin' barbed cock and cat shiiiiiit…" He moaned again and Grimmjow held him up as he wobbled on his feet.

Starrk returned with another armload of bedding. Ichigo was apparently going to be equal opportunity with his berating of his mates. "And you with your fuckin' dog balled cock, I swear if you ever knot with me and get me knocked up again I'm going to feed your balls to Grimmjow!" Starrk nodded and mumbled ascent of some sort and helped Grimmjow lay him in the pile of blankets.

Ulquiorra came in next with some more pillows and got the same glare from Ichigo. "Fuck you too! If you ever get to fuck me again, it will be a goddamned miracle!"

There was no apparent reaction in the stoic looking arrancar. Ichigo's paler than normal skin was flushed red on his face and chest as they stripped away his clothing and draped a sheet over him as he burrowed into the blankets and pillows, all three mates hovering at the edges. Then, he stopped yelling at them as the hardest part of his labor began. Szayel informed the others he was there for emergency only because the alphas and Ichigo had to imprint the young at birth. Before long, the alphas were waiting as Ichigo managed to position himself comfortably to birth them, and soon, there were three mewling creatures being cleaned off by three proud fathers. To Szayel's surprise, Ichigo had conceived with all three of the alphas, and thus each one had a child that looked after then.

Grimmjow held up a little female with a set of blue cat ears set in a mop of unruly orange hair. She had a long windy tail that was striped blue and orange and a pair of brown, molten eyes. Under her eyes were blue markings just like Grimmjow's. Starrk was holding a little creature with big brown eyes and brunette hair. He looked a lot like his father, except the distinct facial features of Ichigo and the eyes. A pair of puppy ears that were bright orange graced his little head. Finally, Ulquiorra was holding a very tiny little boy that had a set of bat wings and bright orange and black streaked hair with a pair of piercing green eyes. He had the red facial markings that Ichigo had on his mask, and had his father's nearly white skin.

Ichigo lay sleepily watching as the three babies played with their fathers. He grinned at his friends and he fell completely unconscious. Monitors beeped and Szayel was moving, checking him over, concerned.

"I think he'll be fine, he's just over exhausted. Birthing three isn't easy. Looks like the birthing canal and reiatsu chamber have both dissipated. Best he can do is rest, and you guys…" he said, looking at the naked babies being played with. "I have no idea what they eat."

"We agreed to try human formulas first. Ichigo doesn't produce milk like human females, and hollow babies normally consume souls…but we're going to put that off," Grimmjow said, retrieving the supply back.

Soon, the three babies were diapered, fed, and sleeping snuggled in against Ichigo among the pillows of the birthing nest. Starrk laid down beside him, soon followed by Grimmjow and Ulquiorra. The visitors were all shown to quarters for the night, and everyone fell into very exhausted sleep.

"Mi amor, why do you not sleep?" Starrk whispered, looking down into Ichigo's big brown eyes.

"Thinking," he said smiling. "I think we should name your pup Taro because he was born first, and Aoi should be Grimmy's kitten because she's got so much blue in her fur and Takao for the littlest one. I think he'll be quite the little hero when he grows up."

Starrk smiled and kissed his head gently. "Mi amor, so beaufitul, mi amor."

Ichigo yawned and fell asleep in his arms, and for the first time in a very long time, he had no fear of the future and only wanted to wake the next day to spend it with his mates and his precious babies. Who would have guessed things would end this way when almost nine months ago he was drug to Hueco Mundo? He honestly couldn't have been happier as he fell into a restful slumber.