AN:

Good tidings to all! Here we are at Chapter Eleven. For those of you who have been keeping up with this story, I thank you very much. But sadly I will be wrapping this bad boy up soon. I have two different concepts for two different stories in the Bleach department in mind and I am ready to get them out for ya'll.

But I really want to thank those who have been reading. Seriously. I've been on a three year hiatus and to come back to know that someone has been reading my work is very uplifting and it inspires me to keep at it. I don't care about Reviews as much but they are nice and welcomed. Whether they are bad or good. Its all good to me ;)

So here's to the beginning of the end of The Result of Infidelity. Look out soon for the sequel, The Result of Revenge, that will take place about twenty years after this story.

Enjoy.

SN: That gun scene from the last chapter was used mainly cause I was ready to kill Orihime. Only reason why it got thrown in. Sorry.

Ichigo Kurosaki had turned into a mad man.

He had dropped to his knees before his dead wife. He didn't even get a moment to say goodbye.

Nothing at all.

His vision became blurred. Everything turned to a reddish hue.

Then it faded to black.

From this moment on, Ichigo would remember nothing.

Ichigo stood up and faced Toshiro Hitsugaya. "You killed her," he said low.

Toshiro smiled. "It was meant for you."

Ichigo yelled a vicious battle cry as he charged for Toshiro. His intentions were to kill him at all costs possible.

He was encountered by a random guard but Ichigo easily took him out, punching him in the face with a jaw-rattling crunch. Ichigo's steps never faltered in the least of bits. Nothing was going to stop him and anyone who tried would die or be seriously wounded in the process.

"Toshiro…"

Toshiro stood his ground. Ichigo came closer.

"TOSHIRO HITSUGAYA!" Ichigo yelled and charged once again. Another man jumped in front of him, but this time, Ichigo easily side stepped him.

Toshiro once again pulled his gun back to fire at Ichigo but Ichigo kicks it out of his hand and lands a fierce punch into Toshiro's face, knocking him off balance.

But it was swiftly regained. Toshiro tried to scramble for the gun but Ichigo knew that's where he was going. He beat Toshiro to the gun and stepped on it to keep Toshiro from getting it.

"This is the game we play? Then we shall play it by my rules," Toshiro said with a smile. With no words exchanged, Izuru throws Toshiro a sword. With no hesitation or time for Ichigo, he swings his sword down on Ichigo to slice him. Ichigo dodges him, steadily looking for his father's position.

Ichigo had brought his special sword just in case Toshiro would want to end this in a sword fight.

When his eyes connected with his father, he moved towards him, running as fast as could. Isshin threw Ichigo his sword when he was close enough and he caught it.

It was on now.

Ichigo charged Toshiro again, sword ready to dice anything in his path.

Toshiro blocked it, and for a few seconds they stood with swords crossed.

"Toshiro Hitsugaya, tonight you die for what you've done," Ichigo spoke confidently.

"Only in your dreams," Toshiro countered.

Ichigo pushed Toshiro back and swung his blade to catch the side of Toshiro's body. Reflexively Toshiro countered his attack.

Ichigo began to slice then as a mad man, tiring Toshiro out from trying to block every move Ichigo tries to give.

Toshiro was no match for Ichigo with the level of anger he possessed.

Everyone who was over looking the fight could tell that it would be over. And over soon.

But Toshiro's determination picks up.

Once again, their swords cross as Toshiro blocks Ichigo's attack. Since it was the right timing, Toshiro pushes Ichigo again. But before Ichigo could get too far away, Toshiro stabs him with a dagger in his side.

The smile of victory was on Toshiro's face. "And you thought you would kill me," Toshiro said very smugly.

Ichigo bent over, holding his side, and fell to his knees.

"ICHIGO!" Ichigo heard Rukia scream from a distance.

"Now to finish you," Toshiro said, raising his sword. But Ichigo wasn't finished yet.

Suddenly, Ichigo removes the dagger from his side and throws it at Toshiro just as he swung his blade on him. The flying dagger took Toshiro off guard with Toshiro trying to avoid the weapon instead.

During this small window of opportunity, Ichigo takes his blade and thrusts it throw Toshiro's chest.

"I told you you would die tonight, Toshiro Hitsugaya," Ichigo said to the groaning Toshiro. Ichigo removes his blade from Toshiro's chest and watched as he collapses to the ground.

"Any other takers?" Ichigo asks.

No one steps forward.

"Didn't think so," he said, shaking his blade of the blood that had stained it.

Now to find Ginrei, Ichigo thought to himself. He made a move for the inside of the Kuchiki Main House but just as he did, the noise of a flying vehicle was in the air.

It was a helicopter landing on the roof.

No, Ichigo thought. Ginrei was trying to make an escape from the roof and more than likely with Reizo.

Without hesitation, Ichigo makes a mad dash to find how to get towards the roof. He followed up mainly through several flights of stairs until he found what he was looking for.

He arrived to the roof just as Ginrei was placing little Reizo in the helicopter.

"Let him go Ginrei!" Ichigo shouted.

Ginrei turned to face Ichigo and smiled. "You're too late, boy!" Ginrei loads himself into the helicopter and the it begins to lift off.

Crazily, Ichigo runs to the helicopter and grabs onto the bottom of it, trying to climb inside. But Ginrei was prepared. He had the pilot shake poor Ichigo off and, luckily for him, Ichigo lands back on the roof with a thud.

All Ichigo could do was watch as the helicopter flew away. Ginrei got away.

-G-

"Damn, Dad! That hurts!" Ichigo screamed as Isshin was dressing his wounds and trying to stitch the wound on his side together.

After the events of the night, they decided to go back to Ichigo's house. Everything was over now. There was no need to hide out any longer.

"You will be fine if you just hold still and let me do my job," Isshin tells Ichigo. Regardless, Ichigo would be in a pissy mood. In one night, everything went wrong. Nothing went right. So he managed to kill Toshiro. But Reizo was still taken away. And to where? That was the biggest question of them all.

When Isshin was finished, he left for the night, leaving Ichigo with Rukia and Yoi. Rukia had went to take a shower and all Ichigo could do was hold his sleeping daughter in his arms and watch her sleep.

Orihime didn't deserve this, Ichigo thought to himself. He rubbed his finger across the side of Yoi's face and admired her as she rested.

She had bright orange hair like Ichigo and he couldn't help but to think of how she was like him. She had certain timid qualities about herself that she gathered from Orihime but on a whole, she was like him.

I promise Orihime that I will make sure our daughter grows up to be as beautiful and strong as you, Ichigo mentally declared. He held his daughter close and sat there until Rukia came out the bathroom.

"Are you okay?" Rukia asks Ichigo.

He shrugs as he moves over for Rukia to get in the bed. "I'm better than I was earlier. But I'm not completely over what all has happened."

"Please don't beat yourself over the head about this, Ichigo. It's not your fault everything happened like it did," Rukia tried to assure him.

"Not my fault? If I had not let my guard down, Orihime would still be alive. I turned my back and did not even think to anticipate Toshiro trying to attack me, especially to stoop so low as to use a gun. That bullet was for me," Ichigo said.

"Ichigo. A bullet knows no name. It was intended for you but look at where it ended. Orihime did something I did not think she would do tonight. She sacrificed herself for you and for your child. Think about it. At the time, you had Yoi in your arms. What if Orihime had not have intercepted that bullet? It would have hit you and could have possibly hit Yoi as well," Rukia explained.

Ichigo had not taken the time to think of it like that. From the moment Ginrei had escaped, all he could see was his mistakes. But he didn't look at Orihime's sacrifice.

"What about Reizo? We have no idea where Ginrei has taken him," Ichigo said.

"As much as this hurts me to say this, I can't pursue my son now. I have no leads on where to find him." Rukia's eyes welled up with tears. She was in pain. Deep pain knowing that there was a possibility that she would never see her son again. But she did have a small bit of joy in it all.

"I'm so sorry, Rukia," Ichigo said, pulling her close to his side with the arm that wasn't holding Yoi.

"It's okay. If I stay optimistic in this, you can say that I have lost a family but gained another one. Now it can be just you and me. Living life, raising Yoi, and handling the troubles of the world that come our way." Ichigo smiled at that.

Through his pain, there was still happiness in it all.

-F-

Ichigo, Rukia, and Isshin all gathered around Orihime's grave site. Isshin held Yoi close in his arms as she constantly tried to touch the incense that was burning on her mother's tombstone.

"Even though in the end I did you wrong, Orihime Kurosaki, you were a great wife to me," Ichigo said.

"At one point in our lives, we had been very close. And I will always cherish those memories. Thank you for taking care of Ichigo while I was gone. Now I shall return the favor," Rukia stated.

"You helped removed my son from the rut he was in all those years and showed him a new happiness. You will never be forgotten Orihime," Isshin said.

Yoi mumbled something in jibberish which earned her a few chuckles from everyone.

As they walked away from Orihime's gravesite together, Rukia thought it would be best to share some news.

"Since we are all here together right now, I thought I would share some great news with everyone," Rukia announced.

"Oh really? What would that be?" Isshin asked.

Rukia stopped walking and opened her purse. She pulled out a picture and handed it to Ichigo.

"Are you serious? Since when?" Ichigo asked.

"I'm only a few days. That's what I went to the doctor for the other day," Rukia told Ichigo as he handed the picture to Isshin. Ichigo grabs Rukia into a big bear hug and twirls her around.

"This is great news!" Ichigo shouted. Rukia giggled and then smiled.

"So I'm getting another grandson or granddaughter! Do you hear that Yoi, you're getting a brother or a sister!" Isshin told Yoi. Yoi cheered right along.

Ichigo couldn't stay upset forever about the situation that surrounded them. He was having another child. Another child with the woman he truly loved. He had to lose one to gain one but it was part of someone's master plan.

"We should go celebrate at my house! How about some ice cream, little one?" Isshin asked Yoi.

"Ice cream!" she shouted back. Everyone laughed as they began to walk off again. For the time being, all was well.

All would be well.

Everything would be fine.

For the time being…