Day after Karissa has had the twins.
Byakuya stood over the two clear incubators that held Sakurako and Mizukiko, watching them sleep. They were still so small, and they had little black whisps of hair, although, Mizukiko's was curlier than Sakurako's. They looked so... helpless. His eyes softened. Like Hisana had been.
"Ahh! Kuchiki-Taicho! Visiting the little-un's are you?" he heard someone say, and he turned to see Shunsui and Ukitake smiling over at him. Ukitake walked over, looking kind of peaky. Byakuya wanted to shove him away, incase he got the girls sick. But he couldn't, because, he after all, wasn't their father.
"You know, if I didn't know any better, I would say they were yours, Byakuya," he heard Ukitake say, and he looked at him. Shunsui slid over to them, and looked at them. The two men looked from Byakuya, back to the babies before back to Byakuya.
"He is right, and, is it just me, or are they a bit too big to be 3 and a half months early?" he said. Byakuya glared at him.
"It is not possible that they are my children, because Karissa and I have nev-" he cut himself off, as he backtracked. Then he did something very un-Kuchiki like. "SHIT!"
Ukitake, and Shunsui raised their eyebrows, as he shunpo-ed out of the room.
"Now, where do you presume he is off to so fast?" Shunsui asked, looked at Ukitake.
"I have no idea," Ukitake said, looking back at Sakurako and Mizukiko.
Rukia glared at Ichigo over the table that was laden with cake displays and sheets on decorations.
"I want strawberry!" she shouted.
"Well, I want chocolate!" he snapped back.
"Strawberry!"
"Chocolate!"
"Strawbery, baka!"
"Chocolate, Midget!"
The two stood, their chaires flying back onto the floor. Rukia smashed her hands on to the table, and stuck her bottom lip out, glaring manically at him.
"Strawberry. That is the finally word, Ichigo," she glared, and he gulped under her glare. He turned, lifted his chair up and sat back down, looking at his hands. Rukia smiled happily, and turned to Orihime. "We are having strawberry!"
Orihime smiled, and wrote it down quickly. Rukia heard a familiar sound of fluttering. She turned and saw a little black hell butterfly flying towards her. She held out her finger, and it landed gently on it. As it replayed it's message, Rukia's eyes widened. The butterfly flew off, and disappeared. Ichigo looked concerned.
"What is it, Rukia?" he asked, and Rukia sat down in his lap, shocked. She stammered, before telling him slowly.
"Karissa... had twin girls last night..." she said, and Ichigo's and Orihime's eyes widened.
"Are they okay?" he asked, and Rukia looked at him.
"They are in incubators at the moment," Rukia said, before the door to the house was knocked down by Isshin Kurosaki.
"Did you get the message?" he asks immediately, and they nodded. He nodded as well. "Get everyone together, we are going to Soul Society early."
The group nodded, and Rukia, Orihime and Ichigo all whipped out their cell's to call their closest friends.
"Tatsuki?"
"Ishida?"
"Chad?"
Chad answered his phone, and listened to what Ichigo was saying. He grunted, and said he would be over soon. Then he proceeded to pack a small bag for his trip to Soul Society.
Ishida answered his cell, to listen to a frantic Rukia on the other end, telling him about Karissa, and how they were going to Soul Society in about an hour. He agreed to come, and grabbed the suitcase that contained Rukia's wedding dress, Karissa's baby things, the only ones he had made so far, and a small bag filled with his stuff, nd left the house as soon as he could, locking his door.
Tatsuki listened to Orihime babble on the other end of the phone, about them going to Soul Society early, and Karissa, someone Tatsuki hardly knew, having gone into labour early, and that was why they were going early. Tatsuki just said she would be there soon, and started to pack her bag anyway.
Isshin went back to his home, and told Yuzu to pack her bag, just as Karin walked in from the bathroom.
"Why, Outa-san?" Yuzu asked.
"Because, we are going to Soul Society!" he said happily, and Yuzu dropped the plate she was holding while Karin's jaw dropped.
"NANI!?" they both shouted.