Author's note: Sorry for the long break between chapters but college life isn't as easy as everyone says it is. Espeically if your a microbiology major. XD but as i mull through my midterm Penalty Shot slapped me in the face and i began writting this chapter. Some more bleach characters are introduced as well as two OC, named Ai and Sai Cifer, if that gives you a hint as to whom one of my new characters in this chapter is. These new characters will play a larger role in the story that is Penalty Shot. Your feed back on them and the story would be greatly appreciated. I was also wondering if you as my readers would be interested in Penalty Shot side stories that would detail more about Renji/Hitomi's past, Suzu and Renji's past, and how they all came to be as well as how Takahiro arrived on the scene.

That's all for now, enjoy the beginning of the fall,

Lokivsanubis XD

Penalty Shot – chapter 11

"Stop calling here." Shuuhei hissed into the phone. They'd changed their phone number six times in the last three months but somehow she always received their new number. They have even moved into a new housing development because neither one of them was ready for a house at the moment. She found a way to get inside. Shuuhei was becoming more and more paranoid because Renji blew her off as an inconvenient but no real threat. He constantly assured him that he would never go back to her but Shuuhei knew from experience words were shallow.

"I want my family back. You stole my husband and my son." Hitomi fired back at him angry. "You snuck in the back door and you know it." She cursed at him. "I will get them back you bit-"

Shuuhei hung up the phone.

Ten seconds later it was ringing again. Frustrated Shuuhei cut the phone wires and went into the living room.

"Takahiro," He called when he noticed his son had wondered off somewhere into the house. "Takahiro?" He called as he continued to get closer to the shaking blanket in the playpen. "Where could Taka be?" Shuuhei asked the 'empty' room as he walked away from the pen ignoring the little head the stuck out from under the blanket giggling. Shuuhei walked through the kitchen and went the back way into the hall where he saw Takahiro climb out of the blankets and sit in the playpen awaiting his return.

"Mama!" Taka shouted excitedly when Shuuhei reentered the room.

"There's my boy." He said lifting up the toddler and kissing him on the cheek.

Takahiro giggled into Shuuhei's neck and held onto him.

Shuuhei carried the boy into the bedroom to dress him for the day. He had twenty minutes until practice started.

"Where has the time gone Taka?" Shuuhei asked the toddler as he buttoned the boy's shirt and tied his shoes. "I remember when you where just a little baby." He said tapping the boy's belly causing him to laugh. Shuuhei smiled as his son as he placed him down. "Two toys Taka." He said giving the boy his backpack.

Taka immediately went to collect Momo and his cuddle blanket before returning to Shuuhei motioning to be picked up.

Shuuhei lifted the toddler into his arms and went to the music room to pick up the Songwriter Renji had bought him for his birthday. "You ready to go to work, Taka?" He asked smiling.

"Yah!" Takahiro shouted as he carried him out the door.

Shuuhei carried Takahiro down the stairs to the parking structure where he was greeted by the familiar female security guard.

Renji had insisted that when he was away at tournaments or not home that Shuuhei be escorted to his car if Takahiro was with him.

Shuuhei walked with Nel and Takahiro to the car. Once Takahiro was loaded in and he'd started the car the blonde woman walked back towards the entrance and they drove off.

Shuuhei smiled at Takahiro as he unloaded him at the recording studio. It had been nearly six months since Hitomi's return and many things had happened in that time. Most of them were Renji caused and orientated. Renji had decided that Shuuhei had talent with his guitar and recorded him playing. Then he took the recording to one of Suzu's friends, Shinji and he placed Shuuhei in a band known as The U.U. or The Urban Underground. It had been a media firestorm for them and the band leading to both good and bad publicity for both parties.

Hitomi had added to the firestorm when she announced that she and Renji would be getting back together now that Shuuhei would be gone with the band. This had caused a huge fall out between Renji and Shuuhei which had almost ended their relationship. That news had also become public and at one point Hitomi had called the police saying on an anonymous tip that she'd heard him threaten to take Takahiro from Renji and kidnap the child for ransom. They had barely immerged from the firestorm intact and things were still shaky since they rarely saw each other anymore. Renji was away playing here while he and the band were performing there or vice versa and all the while Hitomi was calling and becoming a nuisance.

Shuuhei took Takahiro's hand and they walked into the recording studio from the underground parking structure. He picked him up as they got to the elevators and entered one and then looked at Takahiro. "Number 4." Shuuhei said making the sign for 'four' for Takahiro.

Takahiro turned large brown eyes curiously at Shuuhei, "Foor." He replied looking at the buttons he really wanted to push them all.

"Number 4." He said smiling.

Takahiro pushed a little hand out and pressed the large button with '4' on the inside.

Shuuhei smiled and kissed Takahiro's forehead as they rode the elevator up.

Once they exited the elevator Takahiro hid his face in Shuuhei's neck suddenly very shy.

Shuuhei chuckled as he rubbed Takahiro's back as he walked down the hall to the meeting room like they did every other day Renji was gone.

"Hey we're here." He announced to the room as he walked into the room.

"Yo." A reply from behind a set of drums as an orange haired young man appeared.

"Hey," an identical boy with orange hair and a small child's stuffed bear said from the pool table.

"Hello," another nearly identical boy said as he moved a hand through his white hair.

"Morning, Ichigo, Kon, Hichigo." He said as he moved to place Takahiro down in the small playpen they kept at the recording studio loft just for him. "So what have you three been up too?" he asked as he walked away from the playpen and to the fridge to put Takahiro's lunch inside.

"Same as usual," Hichigo replied as he moved to smack Kon in the back of the head. "Move we have to finish prepping the equipment before she gets back. I'm not getting yelled at again because you slacked."

Kon stuck his tongue out at Hichigo before going back to setting up some sound equipment in the next room.

Ichigo ignored his brothers' antics and went to warm up on his drums.

A few moments later Shuuhei had removed his Song Writer and the two of them had a small session going. Ten minutes later their base player showed up looking a little disheveled.

Shuuhei and Ichigo looked at each other and stopped playing after he went to the fridge.

"Morning Kensei!" Kon said with a perverted smile. "So where's Kairi?"

Hichigo pulled his brother back into the other room. "Morning, ignore stupid." He commented. "Come we have things to set up."

"Morning," Ichigo and Shuuhei said in unison as they left their instruments in their places and went to sit at the bar as well.

Kensei looked at Shuuhei, "You watch the game last night?"

Shuuhei nodded, "Yeah, Renji called me afterwards." He replied as he laced his palms together. "He'll be fine. The doctors said it's just a sore tendon, but he won't be playing anymore games this season as a precaution since there are only two season games left and the Senbon didn't qualify for the cup this year."

"So is Renji coming home then?" Ichigo asked after taking water out of the fridge and handing it to Kensei. "You need that." He said motioning to Kensei's messy appearance.

"Is it that obvious?" He asked accepting the water.

Shuuhei and Ichigo laughed, "Of course it is."

Even though Ichigo and Shuuhei were both younger then Kensei they were both in committed relationships. Shuuhei had Renji and Takahiro, Ichigo was married to the adopted sister of the Senbon's second owner Byakuya. The younger two males unlike Kensei had been lucky in that they meet their loves by accident while Kensei had to work with his every day while they made cracks at him.

Takahiro sat in the playpen watching the adults sit around and smiled at them. He was content in his pen with Momo as his company. It wouldn't be long till Uncle Emo came to get him. Takahiro's face lit up when the door opened and a young woman with long brown hair walked into the room. Since Takahiro was rarely around woman he remembered all the ones he met very well. "Auntie Kaiwi!!" He shouted immediately taking her full attention.

Shuuhei laughed he took all her attention the moment she walked into the room. It had been one of the reasons Shuuhei had been nearly forced to call Ulquiorra to pick his son up for the day while he had to do serious recording sessions like today.

Ulquiorra scowled as he rode the small elevator up from the ground floor of Hueco Mundo Recording Studios. He had in one hand the hand of a little girl and in the other the hand of a little boy both of them insistent on touching every button in the elevator causing it to stop and go at every floor which annoyed him to death and caused macabre thoughts to circle in his head. Thank god they only had to go to the fourth floor. Or he might have killed them, his own children be damned.

The little girl looked up at him with large blue eyes smiling at him. She had the same smirk as his lover, that same cocky expression. "Ulomama," the little girl said smiling at him. "We go get Taka?" she asked with a glint in her eyes.

"Yes." Ulquiorra said looking down at her.

They had to stop when the little boy beside them froze mid spot.

"Sai, what is it?" Ulquiorra asked looking at the little boy with bright emerald green eyes and short black hair.

Sai just looked up at Ulquiorra for understanding.

Ulquiorra picked the boy up and carried him the rest of the way down the hall. It's always the Abarai boy with him. I don't know what his problem is. Ulquiorra thought as he held Sai. It was just like when he'd fallen for his trash of a lover.

Ulquiorra walked them for a little while with them until he came to the proper door and knocked.

Hichigo opened the door and sighed, "Hello Cifer." He said allowing Ulquiorra into the suite.

Ulquiorra didn't even bother acknowledging him as he went to Shuuhei placing Sai down. "I'm here for the boy. You can pick him up in the afternoon after work."

Shuuhei nodded and went to the playpen hugging Takahiro goodbye. "Alright now you be good for Uncle Batty."

Takahiro nodded as he was transferred to Ulquiorra who with a wave left with Takahiro.

Ulquiorra took the young child in his arms and walked down the hall with his two walking behind him. Well it was more like ran in front of him as Ai chased her brother down the hall. As they waited for the elevator Takahiro stared at Ulquiorra. This happened every time he picked the little trash monkey up from the Urban Underground Sound Studio. He figured Takahiro just wasn't used to someone who wore such odd tattooing on their face.

"Ulomama." Ai's voice brought Ulquiorra from his musing. "Kitty," She announced loudly pointing down the hall behind them.

Ulquiorra turned around and paused, there looking like a walking embodiment for sex stood his trash of a lover. He wore skin tighter then sin black leather pants and molded just right to his muscular but slim frame. His arms were bare showing off the large panther tattoos Ulquiorra knew to be on each arm growling with ferocity. His chest was also bare as his leather vest was opened and unbuttoned revealing a well toned tightly muscled specimen of a man.

And who was his trash boyfriend, everyone as always surprised when they found out seeing as Ulquiorra always talked down about him and called him a freeloading trash heap at times. His lover was Grimmjow Jaquarques lead singer and at times guitarist for the break out smash group from the underground, The Espada. Though Grimmjow had an attitude problem to a degree he was a genuine good guy.

"Yes, that's Kitty." Ulquiorra replied patting the girl's head.

The elevator had finally returned to their floor and Ulquiorra herded all the children inside so that they could get on their way.

Once in the parking lot Ulquiorra placed Ai and Sai into the car and told them to get in their safety seats while he got Takahiro set up in the smaller seat.

All three seats were top of the line in safety. Ulquiorra had been forced to buy a new car from the size of the car seats alone. Ai and Sai's seats along filled up the first row of his SUV and Takahiro since he couldn't sit in the back by himself required Ulquiorra to move the car seats so that Ai was in the front facing him while Sai was in the back next to Takahiro.

After placing Takahiro into his car seat something told Ulquiorra to turn around. He did so very slowly closing the car's door as he turned so that all the children were safe in the car. He turned and came face to face with Hitomi.

"Gold standard," Ulquiorra said addressing her, "What's trash like you doing here?"

"Give me my son, Ulquiorra you have no right to keep him from me." Hitomi said looking at the slightly taller man expectantly.

Ulquiorra hit the lock car button on the car and looked at her. "You worthless piece of trash do you really think I'm that stupid or lame?" he gave her the familiar blank but accusing stare. "You need to go before I take you out." He said moving to walk around the car to get to the driver's side.

"Give me my son! You have no right to him." Hitomi said throwing him a knowing glare.

"I have more a right then you filthy worthless trash." Ulquiorra replied. "Now leave me be before you have an accident," he warned as he walked around the car and got into the driver's seat being sure to use the key to unlock the driver's side so that the child locks would remain that way for the back of the car. He wouldn't put it past her to jump in his car for the boy.

He eyed her as he backed the car up and drove away. She was becoming a pest and if there was one thing Ulquiorra hated more than trash it was the pests that lived throughout it.

Ulquiorra took the children back to the estate he shared with Grimmjow and their two children. It was moderate sized because the rest of the land had been converted into forest for the purpose of hiding other activities.

Once he unloaded the children he let them play in the small fenced in front yard while he went inside to gather items for the busy day ahead. It was only 11 AM after all there was still a whole 12 hours left in his shift.

He monitored the children playing in the yard through video camera's set up around the playpen area while he prepared a lunch of sandwiches for his toddlers and hotdogs in macaroni and cheese for Takahiro. He'd already placed his phone call into Suzu and Aizen informing them of yet another Hitomi incident. They knew there had to be more but it was obvious someone wasn't speaking up.

The hours passed after lunch and there came a knock on the door. The children where napping in the play room on the third story of the house while Ulquiorra was practicing in the basement at his indoor training center. When he saw the lights on the ceiling flash and he looked at his watch walked upstairs to open the door.

"Hey." Renji said from his wheel chair.

"How was Takahiro?" Shuuhei asked beside Renji.

"He was the same as always though he was asking some interesting questions during lunch today." Ulquiorra replied as he turned on the TV so the first floor would not sound so quiet. It turned on to a concert Grimmjow as performing at.

"Well he has your DVR set to record his performances?" Renji asked raising a tattooed eyebrow.

Ulquiorra nodded, "He wants to see how trashy his performances are for himself." He replied, "you can come get your boy he's asleep upstairs I'll show you the way. They were in Sai's playroom today." He informed them. Renji waited downstairs while Ulquiorra and Shuuhei went up.

Shuuhei walked behind the shorter male as he went up the two flights of stairs to the third floor of the home and down a long hallway. They walked about half way down the hall when they came to a door labeled in French, Spanish, English and Japanese identifying it as Sai's play. Ulquiorra opened the large door to reveal a child's paradise though not sure if it could be called a little boy's room.

The walls where done in a light lavender with golden trim and what appeared to be clouds scattered throughout the walls. White crown moldings decorating the baseboards and ceilings. There were bookshelves filled with books of all reading levels in four different languages, toy trains, house play sets, a desk for drawing, finger paints scattered around a section and a bed. On the king sized bed with guard rails laid the two raven haired children with Takahiro between them.

Shuuhei smiled as he went over to the sleeping children and gently tried to remove Takahiro only to find Takahiro was holding onto Sai's shirt.

Ulquiorra came over and helped by waking his two up saying nap time was over and it was time for some sort of organized activity.

After untangling Takahiro and Sai Shuuhei carried the fussing toddler downstairs followed close behind by Ulquiorra and his children.

Downstairs Renji was on the phone with someone while he wheeled back and forth in place. He must not have heard them come downstairs. "You worry too much it's just a sprain. I'm fine I swear they only have me in a chair as a precaution."He laughed lightly. "Of course I'll still make our meeting tomorrow night." He smiled into the receiver. "Yes I know it's been a while." He paused when he saw Shuuhei "I'll talk to you later." He hung up the phone.

"Daddy!" Takahiro shouted motioning to Renji, "Mama Sai I Sai." He said trying to convey his emotion while thrashing around in Shuuhei's arms.

"Takahiro," Shuuhei said in a warning tone. He acted like this every time they had to leave. He got so upset about leaving his friends. "Now say bye bye to Uncle Ulquiorra, Ai and Sai."

Takahiro just broke into sobs he hated leaving his friends Sai especially.

"Oh Taka." Shuuhei said trying to calm the young child down. "Bye Ulquiorra thank you." He said smiling as they walked out of the house.

Takahiro continued to fight until he was placed into the car seat in his parents' car. Before Shuuhei could help Renji into the car Takahiro was asleep in the backseat.

The ride home was unusually silent; it gave Shuuhei a bad feeling.

Renji's phone rang and since they were stopped at a light Shuuhei looked over and saw it read. "Miss X" on the display screen. Renji smiled at him as he answered the phone.

"Hey why are you calling me right now? I already told you I'd call you late." He said in a patronizing voice. "Don't you on Renji me anything I'll call you later tonight." He smiled, "Hey… I said I'd call you back. Yes yes night Beautiful." He hung up the phone.

Shuuhei raised an eyebrow.

"An old friend from before we met." Renji explained, "She was really interested in some things from the past." He explained.

"I see." Shuuhei replied as he drove towards the apartment.

Shuuhei carried Takahiro from the backseat of the car to the elevator where they waited together.

Renji's cell phone rang again causing Shuuhei to look at him.

Shuuhei didn't say anything as he watched Renji answer the phone again. He already knew it was her. Since when did later constitute a ten minute wait? And didn't he say he would call her back. Wait why would he call her back? She's from the past. Shuuhei's mind began to real.

"Takahiro," Shuuhei began waking the boy by gently rubbing his back.

"Hmm." Takahiro snuggled into his mother's back rubbing his head. "Takahiro, come on we're home." Shuuhei said rubbing his back as they got into the elevator and up to their floor.

"Yeah I'll see you later promise." Renji said as they exited the elevator and hung up his phone again. "She's so persistent." He laughed, "So what have you two been up too while I was gone?" He asked wheeling into the house with Shuuhei carrying a waking Takahiro behind him.

Takahiro yawned loudly as he held onto his mother's neck until Shuuhei placed him down on to the couch. He then snuggled into the cushion and went to sleep.

"Takahiro," Shuuhei said going over to the boy and sitting him up. "You can't sleep now or you won't sleep later." He said waking the boy up and sitting him in his lap.

"Takahiro." Renji said picking the boy up. "Wake up. Why don't you tell me all about your time with Mommy?"

Takahiro's eyes widened and glistened. He loved talking about his Mommy and Me time with Shuuhei while Renji was gone. He managed to wake up as he sat in Renji's lap as he told him about the many interesting things that happened. He made sure to mention the 'scawy' lady who called and came to see Mommy all the time. Renji encouraged Takuya to continue tell him about all the things he saw while he'd been away.

Shuuhei let them talk as he went to start dinner.

Takahiro began telling Renji about how he wanted a Sai for himself. "How come no Sai?" He asked looking around the house. "Me one Sai to." He said expecting Renji to understand.

"Taka, Sai is Ulquiorra's son." Renji explained as the wheeled around the room.

"Taka know." He said looking at Renji funny. "Me wan one." He explained again. "Me want."

In the kitchen Shuuhei dropped the plate he'd been holding.

"Are you alright?" Renji called into the kitchen.

Shuuhei dropped to the floor to pick up the plate. He knew now. It was only a matter of time. Renji would leave him Shuuhei was sure of it. "Yeah I'm fine." He replied trying to calm his breaking heart.

TBC...

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