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Unable to help the smile coming on her face, Orihime grabbed a few more chips from the bag. "I've enjoyed being here too. We'll have to keep these vacation perks in mind for when we go home," she said, making Ichigo laugh, and she remained smiling. Eating the chips in her hand, she rubbed her free hand on her baby bump. This vacation has brought on a lot of thought towards not only our relationship, but you too baby girl. In just a few days, my due date will be just ten weeks away. I can't wait.
Almost seven and a half hours, close to eleven o'clock that night
Closing her eyes, Orihime brought a hand to her mouth to cover the yawn that escaped. They had just turned onto the road where their house was. They left the Karakura Town Airport around ten, and the forty five minute drive home had been filled with silence. They were both fairly tired from the six hour plane ride.
Smiling at the sight of Orihime yawning, Ichigo pulled into their driveway beside his dad's car. Parking the car, he looked over to Orihime. "Are you going to end up falling asleep as soon as we get inside?"
Shrugging her shoulders, Orihime undid her seatbelt, before opening the door to get out. "I'm not sure yet. I feel tired, but at the same time I don't feel tired," she replied, as she got out of the car. Standing up straight, she felt her back stretch a bit, before continuing it's ache. Placing a hand on the door, her other hand went to her back.
"You okay?" Ichigo asked, having gone to the back of the car to get their suitcases out of the trunk. He hesitated when he noticed her stop. "Your back still hurts?"
Not responding for a moment, Orihime took in a breath, and released it slowly. Shaking her head, she moved and shut the passenger door. Walking to Ichigo, she sighed. "Yeah, it still hurts. That plane seat didn't do it a bit of good either," she said, grabbing the handle to her suitcase after Ichigo got it out of the car. Smiling at his concerned look on his face, she just rested a hand on his cheek. "Don't you look so worried. It's just back pain. I've been dealing with it multiple times over the past thirty weeks, and I've made it this far."
"I know," Ichigo replied, one hand on the trunk, the other went to her side. "I don't want you to be in pain though." Kissing her once, he closed the trunk of the car, and they started towards the front door.
The front door was unlocked, so they walked right on in, and their eyes went to the others in the living room.
"You're back!" Yuzu exclaimed, a big grin on her face. The first to jump up from the couch, but was followed closely by her father and sister.
"I-" Ichigo was interrupted when suddenly Yuzu had shot forward and had almost knocked him down with a strong hug. "Missed you too Yuzu."
Orihime laughed as Yuzu came for her next, and she was a little more prepared than Yuzu. "How's the crocheting going?"
"Great! I've got a lot done over the break," Yuzu replied, before stepping back.
"How was the trip?" Karin asked, propping a hand on her hip, as she stopped beside Yuzu.
"It was so much fun," Orihime replied, smiling at Karin. "It was nice being in warm weather for a change."
"How was the flight?" Isshin asked, his eyes going from Orihime to Ichigo. "You two arrived around the time I expected you too."
"It wasn't bad," Ichigo replied, nodding once, as he looked to his dad. "We didn't get delayed, and we left the island just before a storm hit. Then when we landed, the longest thing was getting the suitcases from the baggage claim." His eyes glanced to his side, noticing Orihime held an uncomfortable look again. "You have that look on your face."
"My back hurts Ichigo, it's not just going to magically go away," Orihime replied, smiling. "But, I do need to go to the bathroom. I drank nearly a whole bottle of water waiting for our suitcases, and baby girl is bouncing up and down on my bladder." Without waiting for a reply, she was already turning to go towards the stairs.
Ichigo glanced to his family. "I'll be back down, I'm going to go take our suitcases upstairs," he said, before grabbing both his and Orihime's suitcases.
Once the two were done upstairs, they came back downstairs, and sat on one of the couches. Yuzu was already readying herself with questions, as her eyes went to Orihime first. "How are you and the baby doing?"
"I'm doing okay," Orihime replied, smiling as her hands went down to her baby bump, where baby girl was having her own little circus it seemed. "Baby girl is getting more noticeable to me everyday, as she's getting a lot bigger."
"That's typically how it works," Isshin said, laughing along with Orihime.
"What did you all do over the break?" Ichigo asked after his dad and Orihime stopped their laughter.
"I was in the art studio a lot of the week," Yuzu replied, her eyes focused once again on Orihime. "I got a lot of pieces done for my art class. I want you to look at them before I turn them in."
Orihime nodded once in agreement. "I would love to see them Yuzu. Just as much as I'd love to go with you sometime."
Yuzu's smile widened at that. "I spent those few days spending the night with some of my friends from art class, because dad and Karin were gone."
"Why were you two gone?" Ichigo asked, looking from his dad to Karin.
Isshin was first to reply. "I drove Karin and some of her friends to a music festival for a couple days, and-"
"It was literally the best experience of my life," Karin interrupted her dad, as she looked to Orihime, a big smile on her face. Holding up her right arm to show a design of multiple triangles connected in a circle. "We got these henna tattoo's for one of our favorite performances, and we got to meet some of the musician's from YouTube that we watch. Lorde was there as the special guest, and I almost died!"
"Really?" Orihime asked, before she laughed and shook her head. "I'm so jealous. You better have taken a lot of pictures."
"Of course I did," Karin replied, grinning at Orihime. "I knew you'd want to see it."
Orihime's looked to Isshin then. "How did you manage a few days with a bunch of teenage girls?"
Isshin laughed before shaking his head. "Some of the other parents and myself had found a way to get away from the screaming." Orihime and Ichigo both laughed at that, and Isshin glanced at the time on his phone. Seeing it was getting closer to midnight, he looked to the girls. "Alright you two. I know you missed Orihime and Ichigo, but you have to get ready for bed. You have to get started back on your sleeping schedule for school."
"Dad," Karin immediately started, her arms crossed. "They just got back, we should get an exception here."
Orihime laughed at Karin's clear challenge to her dad, but she just shook her head. "I know you'd rather stay up, but we have plenty of time tomorrow to catch up."
With that said Yuzu was already up and ready to go get ready for bed, as Karin more slowly and grumbling the whole way followed behind. Isshin grinned at his daughters, as he stood up from the couch. "I'm probably going to head upstairs as well. I'm glad you two had a good time, and made it safely back home."
"Night dad," Ichigo said, his hands going to Orihime as soon as his dad walked around the couch to go to the stairs.
With Ichigo's hands suddenly at her waist, Orihime laughed at the ticklish feeling, and allowed herself to be pulled closer to Ichigo. "Night Isshin!" She called when she managed to stop her laughing.
"Don't break anything!" Was Isshin's reply.
That made Orihime's mouth all open, before she laughed. Her hand going to her mouth, as her eyes looked into Ichigo's eyes. She couldn't help but giggle as Ichigo shook his head.
"How does he know everything?" Ichigo asked aloud, before joining Orihime's laughter.
Sitting up, Orihime smiled at their position. She was sitting now directly beside Ichigo, her legs over his lap. "I've decided that I'm not as tired as I thought I was."
"Oh yeah?" Ichigo questioned, raised eyebrows and all.
"Yeah," Orihime replied, before she kissed his cheek. "I want ice cream." Was all she said, before moving to get up from the couch.
"Ice cream," Ichigo repeated slowly, before he shook his head. Watching her until she walked into the kitchen. "Not what I had in mind, but alright. Ice cream at midnight, sure."
Soon enough they were seated back on the couch. Both with a bowl of ice cream, as they watched a little bit of television. Orihime was leaning lightly against Ichigo, as her legs were pulled up on the couch. "Our sleeping schedule is going to be so messed up by the time we go back to school."
"We can't exactly help it," Ichigo said, shrugging his shoulders, as he got another spoonful of ice cream. "The three hour time difference from here to Silvermist is going to take a bit of adjusting to."
"Yeah, we just got used to the times in Silvermist before we left," Orihime said, shaking her head before taking a bite of her ice cream as well. "Either way, even if we don't sleep, I can't wait to actually be in our own bed. I'm so happy that we're home."
"Trust me, I can't wait to get you in our own bed either," Ichigo said, his tone suggestive, as he looked to Orihime.
His suggestive tone made Orihime smile, as she turned to meet his eyes. "We'll have to be very quiet."
Ichigo smirked at her. "I think we'll manage," he said, before leaning over and kissing her."
The next day, Fifth of March
Opening her eyes to see the light pouring into their bedroom from the window, Orihime smiled, as she felt Ichigo's hand stroking her hair back. "It's past one in the afternoon, you know?"
"I'm not at all surprised we slept this long," Ichigo replied, as Orihime turned around so she could face him. "We did stay up until almost four thirty in the morning after all." He moved closer to her then, supporting his weight so he wasn't putting any pressure on her, and then he kissed her. It didn't take too long for their kisses to grow heated, memories of their before bed activities, that had been the reason for them staying up until four thirty, on their minds.
However, before it could go much further, Orihime had to break away from Ichigo, as she started laughing. "I can't," she said through her laughter, moving to sit up. "I just got the feeling of having to pee really bad."
Ichigo laughed, as he moved to allow her to get up. Resting back against their pillows again, he shook his head. "Just as the right moment."
Laughing along with Ichigo, Orihime was quick to try to control it. "Don't make me laugh anymore, or I'll pee myself Ichigo," she told him. Grabbing one of their blankets, she wrapped it around herself, before standing up. Going to their dresser, she grabbed underwear and a bra, before going to their closet to grab some pajama pants and a tank top. Dropping the blanket so she could get dressed, she slipped on her clothes as quick as her pregnant belly would allow her, before walking out of the closet.
Ichigo looked over to see her walking quickly to the door, and he started laughing.
"Stop it Ichigo," Orihime said, a smile on her face, as she had to take deep breaths to keep herself from laughing more. "It's not funny." Leaving their room, she made it to the bathroom on time, and was soon feeling a hell of a lot better. After washing her hands, she left and walked back to her and Ichigo's room.
Just as Ichigo was pulling a t-shirt out of their dresser. "Feeling better?" Ichigo asked, smirking as he moved to put his shirt on.
"You have no idea," Orihime replied, walking over to him, she rested her hands on his chest before he could pull his shirt down. Kissing him then, she shook her head after breaking the kiss. "We should probably go downstairs." She slid the rest of his shirt down for him.
"If we have to," Ichigo said, smirking as his hands went to her waist. "I'm perfectly happy staying up here all day."
"Again, we should probably go downstairs… before I can actually take you up on that," Orihime replied with a smile, before walking to the door.
Once downstairs the eyes of the others were on them almost immediately.
"You two slept pretty late," Isshin said, his eyes leaving the medical file he was reading to go to them.
"Yeah, it's almost two in the afternoon now," Yuzu added.
Ichigo shrugged his shoulders. "It's the time difference. We ended up going to bed around four thirty in the morning because we have been going to sleep later on vacation."
Orihime came back from the kitchen, where she had gone to grab some pop-tarts. She moved to sit down on one of the couches.
"When can we see the pictures you took?" Yuzu asked, her eyes on Orihime.
"Now would be fine," Orihime said, before turning her head to look at Ichigo, who had just sat down beside her.
At Orihime's smile, Ichigo raised an eyebrow, before he sighed. "Do you want me to get your laptop or mine?"
Smiling wider at Ichigo's understanding, Orihime focused on opening her pop-tarts. "Mine would be good, and the camera bag as well. It has the camera and the other memory cards in it."
"Right away," Ichigo said, moving to get up to go upstairs.
"Love you!" Orihime called after him. She started laughing when she heard him say, "yeah, yeah". Her laughter was cut short when she felt baby girl move up in her ribcage. Making her pause in taking of the pop-tarts out of the package, and that hand went to the top of her baby bump as she took in a breath. "You just can't stay away from my ribcage can you?"
"I was wondering why you looked like in you were in pain," Isshin said, noticing the uncomfortable expression Orihime held. "Is she starting to do that more now?"
Nodding her head, Orihime sighed, as she rubbed the top of her bump. "Yes she is, and since she is getting bigger, it hurts more when she does it. Sometimes it will knock the breath out of me if she decides to kick when she's up like she is-" She broke off when she did start feeling the kicks, and she actually coughed when she felt the oxygen in her lungs being forced out of her. "Ichigo!"
"Do you need something else?!" Was Ichigo's reply from upstairs.
"Yes!" Orihime called back, coughing again, as she rubbed her baby bump more. "I need you to come back down here!"
"Hold on!" Ichigo replied.
"Well hurry up!" Orihime called to him, coughing a bit more.
Footsteps were heard, and then Ichigo was coming down the stairs. Orihime's laptop and the camera bag in hand. "For someone who asked me to go upstairs to get something for you, you are not very patient on waiting for me to finish that task, before asking me to do something else."
"Yeah, well your daughter is hurting me, and I need you to make her stop," Orihime replied, as Ichigo walked around the couch towards her.
Ichigo smirked at that. Putting the laptop and camera bag on the coffee table. He knelt down on the floor near Orihime, and brought both hands to the top of Orihime's baby bump. Looking to his family, he saw their looks. "Orihime has decided that baby girl becomes just my daughter when she's causing her problems."
That caused them to laugh. Karin shook her head, as she crossed her arms, and leaned back against the pillows on the couch. "So how is Ichigo helping?"
"For some reason, she relaxes when Ichigo is either touching my belly or talking," Orihime explained, before rolling her eyes. "Which is becoming increasingly annoying for me."
"At least it helps," Ichigo said, grinning at Orihime's eye roll. When he felt baby girl move down a bit, he took his hands off Orihime's baby bump. Standing back up, he leaned over, and kissed the top of Orihime's head. "You should be fine for a little while."
"Thank you," Orihime said, before moving to turn her laptop on, and grabbing the camera bag. "It'll take me a moment, but we can hook my laptop up to the TV. That way it'd be easier for you all to see the pictures."
Ichigo nodded, as he stroked his chin, thinking. "I'm sure the cord for it is somewhere around-"
"I know where it is!" Yuzu interrupted, jumping up from the couch. "I organized all the electronic stuff for the TV in a bin in the cabinets for the TV stand because it was an absolute mess."
Karin raised an eyebrow when Yuzu's pointed look came to her. "What? Just because I don't see the point in putting stuff back exactly how it was before I used it, doesn't mean that you need to look at me like it is all my fault."
"Organization is much more peaceful, and you should really value it Karin," Yuzu replied, before walking over to the TV to retrieve the cord.
"I'll take your word for it," was Karin's reply, as she kicked her feet up on the couch. Her eyes noticing her dad smirking at her. "Don't even start dad."
A good twenty minutes later, having just finished looking at the pictures from their vacation, Orihime turned her computer off, and moved to push herself up. Actually struggling a bit, and she felt Ichigo's hand go to her back to help her all the way up. "This is actually ridiculous how much effort I have to put into getting up now."
Ichigo grinned at her words. Leaning back, as his rested along the back of the couch. "Glad to hear you're not complaining."
Orihime just smiled. "I'm not complaining, I am just stating my opinion," she said, before moving to go to the stairs. "I'm starting on my homework, because I will end up dropping out of school at the rate I'm going on missing assignments or having to set the record for the most makeup assignments assigned to a single student in a year."
That had the others laughed at that, as they all got up from the couches as well. A half hour later, Orihime and Ichigo sat on one side of the table, as Yuzu and Karin sat on the other. Orihime, Ichigo, and Yuzu were working on their homework. Karin had her earbuds in, and was twirling her pencil around her fingers. Not really getting much work done.
Orihime had her laptop on again, and was typing an essay for literature. Ichigo had just finished his essay, and closed his laptop. Grabbing his math packet next, he looked to Orihime. "Do you want me to wait to do this until you are ready, so I can help you?"
Humming as she thought, Orihime kept her eyes on her essay. "You can go ahead and start it, but when I start mine, I'll just end up asking you a hundred questions."
Raising an eyebrow, Ichigo smirked. "Okay then. I'll just read my history chapter first, and then start math when you get to it."
Orihime smiled at Ichigo. "Thank you."
"Karin you are going to have to get ready for your game soon," Isshin said, walking from the hall the study was on.
"You have one tonight don't you?" Yuzu asked, as she watched her sister take her earbuds out.
"Yeah," Karin replied, moving to wrap her earbuds around her phone.
"Why are they still making you play a game over the break?" Ichigo asked.
"Because they won their last game, they had the game to play this week. They moved it to Saturday instead of Friday because it's the break," Karin explained, as she smirked. "I don't mind though. I've missed playing."
"Or it's because you miss Ryuu," Yuzu added in.
At that Karin gave her a pointed look. "Yuzu," she started, before seeing her dad's expression. She sighed, and shoved her untouched homework in her bag, before going upstairs to get ready. Coming back down after ten minutes, dressed in her soccer gear, she propped a hand on her hip. "Dad?"
Isshin moved to get up from where he had sat down at the table. "I'm going to drive Karin up to the school a bit early. Her team wants to warm up from not having practice this past week."
"I haven't finished my homework yet," Yuzu said, frowning at the sight of her dad looking at her.
"You can ride with Ichigo and I if you want to Yuzu," Orihime said, smiling at how the girl was putting her school work above everything else.
"Okay," Yuzu agreed, as she looked to her dad again.
"Fine with me," Isshin said, before looking to Karin. "Let's go."
A couple hours later
"You know that we are supposed to be getting ready to go," Ichigo said, walking into his and Orihime's bedroom. His eyes on Orihime, who was sitting on their bed, looking at her laptop screen.
"I know. I'm just looking at the pictures again," Orihime replied, smiling when Ichigo came to sit down next to her. "These are my favorite ones."
The first picture was of them on their short hike they took when they were up on top of the mountain after getting off the ski lift. It was of her and Ichigo together in front of the waterfall they had got to go see up close. Then the next picture was after Ichigo had decide to pick Orihime up, surprising her. Her arms were wrapped around his shoulders to stead herself, and she had her head back laughing.
"We were about to walk back up to the top of the waterfall, I thought it'd be nice to carry you all the way up," Ichigo said, eyeing the picture, and smiling at the sight of how she was laughing in it.
The next picture was of them after getting out of the yoga class. Orihime clearly didn't want her picture taken, as she had her hand covering her face, although her smile was seen. Then one of them in the elevator where his arm was wrapped around her waist, giving her no choice but to take the picture. She was laughing, and he had a big grin on his face. Then one of them together on the yacht.
"Did we see these earlier?" Ichigo asked, as she had switched to one of them on the day they were at the beach with the others. Orihime and Ichigo were walking together hand in hand down the beach in it, and the next one was of them stopping and kissing each other.
"I may have skipped over them," Orihime replied, as they got to one's of them at the aquarium. Ichigo was in the tank at that time, and he had swam down to her. The first picture was of when their hands were on the opposite sides of the glass touching. The second one was of where he had his other hand resting on the glass where her baby bump was. Orihime smiling away in the picture. "This one is my favorite."
"Mine too," Ichigo agreed, leaning over and kissing her cheek. Taking her laptop then, he set it on their desk, as he turned back towards her. "We need to get ready."
Orihime nodded as she got up. Going to the closet, she grabbed some sweatpants. Having to put a lot more effort into getting them on, Orihime heard Ichigo laughing at her. "Pants should not be so complicated to put on… of course, I'm also almost a full seven months pregnant so that doesn't help, but still! I miss shorts."
"I'm missing dressing for warmer weather too," Ichigo agreed, before hearing Yuzu calling for them from downstairs. "Guess we're taking too long."
Almost two hours later
"They're almost out of time," Ichigo noted, watching the soccer game below. Karin's team was down, and needed another goal if they were going to win.
"They'll be fine," Orihime reassured, watching as Karin was talking to the other members of her team. Seeing Karin nod once, she crossed her arms over her chest. "They'll get the goal."
"How can you be so sure?" Yuzu asked.
"Because Karin's not going to let them down," Isshin replied for Orihime, his eyes on Karin as well.
Karin's POV
Starting the next play, Karin was running down the field towards the other team's goal. Noticing two girls from the opposing team running towards her from the corner of her eye, she noticed one was literally going for her. Not the ball, and she had to try to dodge so the girl wouldn't have run into her. However when she dodged it made her lose her balance, and she fell back. Landing harshly on her wrist, she hardly let it bother her, as she caught sight of the other girl getting the ball. Jumping up from the ground, she cut diagonally across the field to catch up to the girl who had stole the ball.
When she was close, she growled at the thought of how that move the girl who stole the ball and the girl who charged at her was dirty. They had to have planned to do that purposely. At that thought, she sped up, and at last second before the girl could try kicking the ball into her team's goal, she spun in front of the girl, and stole the ball back. Noticing this made the girl fall back like she had, Karin smirked before starting back towards the other team's goal. Dodging the other players in the field, the one who had knocked her over was heading towards her head on again. This time she took imitative, seeing another one of her teammates on the other side of the field, and she kicked the ball over.
The girl receiving the ball was close to the goal continued down the field, and when Karin had gotten past the other team's player, she kicked it back.
Karin was close enough now, and she moved and kicked the ball towards the goal. The goalie had been too focused on Karin to try to stop it, and it went in. At that cheers erupted from their side of the fields stands. The loud sound of the scoreboard noting the end of the game brought the others. Her own team gather together, and did their happy high fives.
As the other team went off the field, their own coach came over to talk to them about the game. Karin was hardly even listening as she was just taking a breath at how close that game ended up. Hearing her name she looked to the coach.
"Call it Karin," the coach said.
Karin nodded, and the girls put their hands in. "Great job today! We're going to crush it next week!" She half-exclaimed, before counting off. "One, two, three," she said, before they all clapped twice. "Lady Wolves!" They called, as their schools mascot was a wolf.
Karin was the first to break off from her team, and she found her family easily. Jogging over, she couldn't help the big grin on her face.
"That was awesome Karin!" Yuzu exclaimed, happy for her sister.
"Well played game Karin, we knew you'd get the goal," Isshin praised.
Nodding her head, Karin brought a hand to her wrist that she had hurt. "That was epic!"
"Your wrist," Orihime said, having noticed Karin holding it. "I noticed you landed on it when you fell."
"Yeah," Karin said, eyeing it. "It's a little messed up, but it's not that bad… I'm going to go grab my bag." She moved towards the bench where it was, and moved to grab it. However it caused her wrist to ache, and she dropped the bag back on the bench. Hissing at the pain. Maybe it's worse than I think.
"Here," Ryuu's voice hit her ears, as he jogged over. Picking up the bag for her, he slipped the strap up onto her shoulder for her.
Feeling almost flustered at the at, Karin was at a loss for words.
"You did great! I'll see you tomorrow for our study date," Ryuu told her, before he hugged her without warning.
Karin had hardly recovered enough to hug him back before he released her, and went to jog back to his family. Karin just watched after him for a moment, before turning back to walk to her own family. Almost in a daze, as she grinned ear to ear.
"You two are so cute!" Yuzu laughed at her sister's clearly red cheeks.
"He needs to keep his hands to himself," Ichigo muttered under his breath, before grunting at the elbow he received to the ribs from Orihime.
Starting towards the path that led to the parking lot, Isshin looked to Karin. "Where do you want to go for dinner?"
"Uhhh…" Karin trailed off, before looking to Orihime. "What do you want? It's the first dinner you and Ichigo are having back. Might as well go somewhere that the baby wants right?"
Orihime laughed, as she brought her hands to her baby bump. "Well she certainly doesn't want seafood," she said, as she and Ichigo laughed.
They ended up at a diner not too far from the school, as Orihime was craving hamburgers and french-fries.
"This is heavenly," Orihime sighed happily, as she took another bite into her hamburger.
"Having seafood at least twice a day for the past week makes you realize how much you miss our kind of food, huh?" Isshin asked, grinning at Orihime and Ichigo. They both looked like they were clearly enjoying the food.
"You have no idea," Ichigo replied.
Isshin's eyes went to Karin who was staring at her wrist, a frown on her face. "Let me look at your wrist, it might be sprained."
"Uhhh, no," Karin replied stubbornly, crossing her arms lightly.
"Karin," Isshin said, laughing at her.
"I can't have a sprained wrist," Karin said, growling at the thought. "I play the guitar for kami's sake."
Orihime raised an eyebrow. "Since when? I thought you were playing piano?"
"I am, that's my primary instrument," Karin said, before she sighed. "Before the break, the teacher told us we have to learn a secondary instrument, and stupid me, picked the guitar." She groaned then, and slapped her good hand to her face. "Why couldn't I have picked something like the triangle?"
"Don't worry Karin," Isshin said, laughing at her irritation. "When we get home you can alternate hot and cold presses and see how it is tomorrow. If it's still swollen and bruised we'll take you to the hospital for x-rays."
Karin gave her dad a pointed look, a frown on her face. "I'd rather die than go to the hospital."
That made the others start laughing.
Almost five hours later, around one in the morning
Glancing over to see what time it was, as it was still dark in their bedroom, Orihime groaned when she realized it was past one in the morning. When she heard her stomach growl, she sighed. That's why I'm awake right now. She thought, before getting up. Careful not to wake Ichigo.
Going downstairs for a snack, she just got to the bottom of the stairs, and she jumped at the sight of movement on the couch. The television had still been on, and someone was on the couches.
"Orihime?"
"Karin? What are you doing down here this late?" Orihime asked, recognizing the voice, before her eyes adjusted to the dark more.
"Watching a movie, I couldn't sleep. My dominant side is where I sleep with my right hand under my pillow. But, that's busted as you know," Karin replied, pausing the television. "What about you?"
"I'm just grabbing a snack," Orihime replied, before she started towards the kitchen. Coming back with cut up apples with peanut butter on the side, and cubed cheese. As well as a cold ice pack with a wash cloth wrapped around it. She comes over and sits on the couch with Karin. "Switch to cold for a little bit."
Karin accepted the cold ice pack, and switched it for the warm one she had on her wrist at the moment.
Orihime set her plate with cut up apples, peanut butter, and cubed cheese down, before looking to Karin. "Help yourself."
Which Karin just grabs an apple before raising an eyebrow at Orihime. "You're not tired."
"Far from it actually," Orihime replied biting into a cubed cheese that she had dipped into the peanut butter. "I went to sleep tired, but woke up like almost two hours later completely awake and starving." She grabbed an apple slice before she laughed. "Being pregnant makes me trying to sleep at night a very odd process."
Karin nodded, reaching to the table she grabbed her cup and sipped at it. "I've got playoffs on my mind. Our game that determines if we make it to playoffs is this upcoming game. Then the Friday before Spring Break is the final game, and if we can make it through playoffs we'll be playing that game. It's making me nervous, and it's like a whole month away."
"That's understandable, you've been working hard this season," Orihime said, smiling as she leaned back on the pillows, grabbing a blanket from the back of the couch she covered her lower half, and offered the other side of the big blanket to Karin, who accepted it. "What are you watching?"
"The Hunger Games," Karin replied, before looking over to Orihime. "I only started it a few minutes ago, if you want me to rewind it."
Thinking, Orihime knew she should probably go to sleep, but instead she nodded. "Yeah that'd be good." Before eating another cubed cheese dipped in peanut butter, her hands resting on her baby bump, and smiled as she felt soft movement. Now that you've got your food, you must be pretty content baby girl. You just sleep away in there.
Later on that morning
Waking up, Ichigo rolled over, and reached his hand out for Orihime. However, when he just touched their mattress, he opened his eyes. Finding Orihime wasn't next to him. She got up before I did? He thought, before getting up from the bed. Grabbing a t-shirt, he slipped it on, before he left their room. Going downstairs, he saw his dad and Yuzu at the table. "Where-?"
"Shh," Yuzu interrupted Ichigo before he could speak more.
Ichigo raised an eyebrow at his sister. "Yuzu, what-"
"Shh," Yuzu shushed him again.
Isshin pointed over to the living room.
Ichigo looked over, and the sight had him raising an eyebrow again. There was Orihime and Karin. Orihime was laying on her side, her hair covering her face a little, as she had her head resting on a pillow. Then there was Karin. She was laying with her head resting on Orihime's thigh, and her body was curled up on the remainder of the couch. Both were fast asleep.
"Why are they down here?" Ichigo whispered, as he understood why his dad and sister were being quiet now.
Isshin shrugged his shoulders, as he sipped at his coffee. Yuzu, on the other hand, was going to answer his question. "I came down here early like I usually do, and I found the television on with the Hunger Games movie screen up, as well as empty plates and drinks from them both."
Ichigo eyed his sleeping sister and girlfriend for another moment, before shaking his head. Deciding to do what Yuzu and his dad were doing, and leaving them be.
It wasn't until a couple hours later when Orihime's eyes finally fluttered opened. Ichigo was finishing up some homework nearby, and noticed she was awake right away.
Orihime had barely moved when she noticed how something was pressing down on her legs. Looking to see Karin was asleep, she refrained from moving anymore. Her eyes going to Ichigo as he was looking at her, she smiled at him. "Good morning."
"Morning," Ichigo replied, in the same low tone Orihime used. "You seem to be a little stuck."
Orihime shrugged her shoulders, before yawning. "She's comfortable, so I don't think I want to wake her," she said, looking from Karin to Ichigo again, knowing he'd want an explanation. "I woke up around one in the morning, starving. So I came down here to make a snack, and Karin was already down here watching a movie. So I ended up sitting and watching the movie with her."
"Well, I'd like to inform you that it is almost one o'clock in the afternoon now," Ichigo said, smirking at Orihime's wide-eyed look. "You'll be happy to know that you've almost slept halfway through this whole day, and you seemed to have missed breakfast."
"I can make you something else to eat if you want," Yuzu said, having moved over to the couches. Her eyes on Orihime.
"That'd be great Yuzu," Orihime said, as she thought about what she'd wanted. "I think I want a chicken sandwich. Colby jack cheese. Lettuce, ranch, and hot buffalo sauce."
Yuzu nodded, and was going to go start on it, but Karin's voice stopped her. "I'll have one too," she had said, yawning as she had sat up. Stretching her arms above her head. Her hair slightly ruffled from how she had been sleeping.
With Karin finally awake, Orihime moved to sit up as well, and reached over to smooth down the ruffle in Karin's hair. "I think it was three something when we finally went to sleep."
"Almost four, I think," Karin said with a nod. "I had just switched from a cold press to a hot one for my wrist, and it was almost four when I came back to sit down."
"Speaking of your wrist, how is it today?" Isshin asked from where he was sitting on the other couch. "Are we going to be taking a trip to the hospital?"
Moving her wrist around, it didn't cause her that much pain, and the swelling appeared to have gone down tremendously. "Still a little bit of pain, but I think I'll be fine," Karin said, before yawning again. Smelling the start of Yuzu cooking the chicken for their sandwiches, she hummed. "Oh my god, I'm starving."
"Me too," Orihime agreed, rubbing her baby bump. "I'm probably going to get pop-tarts to satisfy me until it's time to eat. Want the other one in the pack?"
Karin nodded, and moved to get up. "I'll go get some."
Orihime looked over to Ichigo, who had pulled his phone out. "I'm running out of clothes."
"We've only been gone a week Orihime," Ichigo said, looking away from his phone, and to her. "You were able to fit most of everything before we left."
"I know I could before we left. But, now everything is too tight," Orihime replied, frowning as the clothes she was in now was sweatpants and a tank top. The only thing that was really comfortable for her to wear at the moment.
"What are you measuring at?" Isshin asked, looking up from the medical files he was reading.
"Four inches and six millimeters," Orihime replied, as she looked back at Ichigo. "That's a almost a whole half inch before I was before our vacation. I was already starting to get a little bit tight on my clothes before the vacation, but now it's really noticeably tight."
Karin came back into the living room, and handed Orihime a pop-tart. "I had to almost fight Yuzu for this," she said, laughing as she sat back down on the couch. "She said that's basically like spoiling our lunch. But, when I told her you wanted it, it was suddenly okay."
Orihime laughed, as she looked to Isshin. "I'm sorry for any influence I have on them," she said, making Isshin laugh. Her eyes went back to Ichigo then. "Anyway, I'm going to have to go shopping sometime this week."
"If you want, we can go tomorrow," Ichigo offered, leaning back against the couch cushions, as he crossed his arms over his chest.
That made Orihime raised an eyebrow as Isshin started laughing. She just focused on Ichigo. "Are you really submitting yourself to going shopping with me?" She asked, biting into her pop-tart, chewing, and then swallowing. "Didn't you learn that lessen the first time you offered to go shopping with me?"
Ichigo shrugged his shoulders. "It's not that horrible…" he trailed off before he looked back at her. "Yeah, maybe you could get Mai or Rukia to go with you. They like shopping."
Orihime joined in with Isshin's laughter this time, as she smiled at Ichigo. "That's what I thought."
A/N: So they are finally back home! I'm really excited for what's to come in the last few months of Orihime's pregnancy, and I hope you all are too! Thanks so much for reading! :)
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