Chapter eleven: STOP KICKING!

Kick …

Soi stirred and frowned in her sleep as she buried deeper within her half the cocoon of blankets.

Kick …

She moaned quietly wriggling onto her other side and trying to keep warm in the cool winter wind.

Kick …

"Yoruichi…" Soi raised her hand and patted it firmly on Yoruichi's hips.

Kick … Kick …

"Yoruichi" Soi groaned louder. She was ever so tired. And now Yoruichi was kicking her in her sleep.

Kick … Kick …

Soi sat up and glared at Yoruichi's form beneath the covers. Another kick urged her to wake up the snoozing ex-princess and deal with the consequences later. She rested her hands on Yoruichi's shoulder and gently shook her.

Kick…

She shook her lover harder, whimpering slightly "Yoruichi please wake up!"

"Wha … wha … wha-what?" Yoruichi groaned jerking awake into a sitting position. Soi sat beside her, her grey eyes glaring daggers. "Oh morning bumblebee why are you up so early?" Soi didn't move. Yoruichi wasn't even sure if Soi was breathing. "Soi?"

"All night" Soi growled softly "All bloody night you have been kicking me as though you were playing for the CHAMPIONSHIP OF SOUL SOCIETY FOOTBALL!!!!"

Yoruichi shivered slightly and pulled the blankets over her shoulders. She looked sheepish and a faint flush kissed her cheeks. "Sorry, love, but …"

"But WHAT?"

"The … baby was kicking me … and I was having a dream so I tried to kick it back"

"You tried to kick our baby back …how?"

"It was in my dream"

"Why would you even dream that?" Soi shouted.

"Hey!" Yoruichi protested, "In my dream the baby was seventeen stories high!"

Soi couldn't help but giggle at this. Her anger melted away. How could it not? Her Yoruichi was too cute. Speaking of her Yoruichi. "Yoruichi"

"Mmm?"

"Have you seen my Yoruichi-cat?"

"Your … what?" Yoruichi looked confused and blinked with a hiss as Soi leant over and flicked the bedside lamp on. Yoruichi flung an arm over her golden eyes. "Argh! Soi! Light off! Light off!"

"But I can't! I need my Yoruichi-cat!"

"SOI!"

"WHAT?" Soi snapped sitting on her heels and glaring heatedly at Yoruichi.

"I'm sure you can go one more night without it"

"One more?"

"Yes, I put it over there on your shelf"

Soi's eyes travelled to the dimly lit shelf and saw her teddy "why would you do that?" she snapped again, her eyes darting to Yoruichi's golden eyes. Yoruichi looked sheepish again and refused to speak or so much as meet Soi's gaze. "Yoruichi" Soi continued in a deadly calm manner "why did you take away my teddy?"

"I WAS JEALOUS OKAY?"

"You were … jealous?" Yoruichi nodded cuddling her pillow over her round belly "of my teddy?" Yoruichi nodded again "why?" this time Yoruichi shrugged. Soi reached out and ran a gentle hand through her lover's violent purple locks "come on love you can tell me" Soi breathed gently leaning closer, her lips brushing faintly against Yoruichi's temples, causing the older woman to quiver.

"Because I want to be the only one you cuddle at night," she finally answered in a small voice.

Soi smiled and wrapped her arms around her lover. Yoruichi cuddled into the embrace and purred as Soi stroked her hair, it was making her feel sleepy. "Oh Yoruichi you'll always be the one I want to cuddle at night"

"Okay then" Yoruichi shuffled back onto her pillow and allowed Soi to wrap her arms around her chest. Neither wanted to move to turn off the light. Yoruichi glared at the Yoruichi-cat on Soi's bedside table. The cat glared back. Yoruichi growled low in her throat and grabbed the teddy and hurled it at the lamp.

"YORUICHI!!!" Soi shouted as the lamp crashed to the floor, bathing the room in darkness "WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT?"

Yoruichi shrugged against her lover "it was glaring at me" Soi looked down at the top of her lover's head, opened her mouth to retort to that dim reply and then shut her mouth again. Why bother? She was too tired anyway. It was only the light that was broken not her teddy, as far as she knew anyway. She snuggled down and purred lightly. Soi stroked her beloveds' silky hair and closed her eyes to sleep, her hands resting lightly on Yoruichi's bulging belly.

"Woah what was that?" Soi gasped lightly as Yoruichi's stomach jerked beneath her hands.

Yoruichi chuckled "the baby just kicked"

"You should tell it to stop"

"I have but it won't listen to its mummy" Yoruichi turned and smirked up at Soi "maybe it'll listen to its daddy"

Soi's eyes went wide at the word 'daddy' but soon softened as she pressed a tender kiss to Yoruichi's tummy "stop kicking, sweetie, or else mummy and daddy can't get to sleep" the baby kicked again "don't take that tone with me!" Yoruichi chuckled as the baby kicked again "well I suppose if she deserves it" Soi snickered as Yoruichi glared softly down at her. The baby gave a faint kick, "alright then night-night" Soi sat up and smiled at Yoruichi "there easy as pie"

"Ooh pie" the older woman clapped her hands, golden eyes gleaming.

Soi's eyes went wide "no Yoruichi! Not your cravings! It's 5:30 in the morning!"

Yoruichi pouted "but I want pie"

Soi pursed her lips "no. You can have it later"

"You are so mean to me!"

"We don't want to over-stuff you"

"I'M NOT FAT!!!"

"Never said you were, love"

Yoruichi glared as they snuggled back down "it was implied" she huffed, folding her arms across her chest, and refusing to let Soi wrap her pale arms around her.

"No it wasn't!" Yoruichi merely shuffled an inch further away from Soi. "Fine" Soi stood up and leant over the edge of the bed "I guess Yoruichi-cat can cuddle me tonight" a hand griped her wrist and pulled her back roughly onto the bed. She landed with a 'oof' as she collided with the mattress. Yoruichi smirked down at her.

"Now who's going to cuddle you tonight?" Yoruichi asked again as though she were talking to a child who had gotten their first answer wrong.

"Yoruichi-cat?"

"No"

"Rukia?"

Yoruichi snorted "no"

"Hmm Ichigo?"

"If he dared to touch you I'd kill him"

"Territorial much?"

"Immensely"

"I like it when you get all protective"

"Why?"

"It's fucking sexy!"

"Shh! Not in front of the baby!"

Soi cocked an eyebrow and laughed lightly "come on lets get some sleep"

"Oh all right" they snuggled down beneath the blankets, Soi cuddled again Yoruichi stomach. Something nudged the small of Soi's back.

She groaned, "Ah baby stop kicking!" Yoruichi snickered lightly. For once she wasn't the 'baby' in trouble.