AN: After much thought, I decided to delete'The Room' and put it here instead of leaving it as a lone story on its own since it involves the two of them and this section was made especially for them and their marriage. Sorry if you guys were expecting something new and were disappointed to find this here, please move on to the next chapter for the new story. This was a minor spring cleaning.
Disclaimer: I do not own Bleach but they belong to Kubo Tite.
The Room
"Uryuu, are we there yet?" I anxiously asked Uryuu as I cautiously took another step forward. It is not that I do not trust Uryuu but being seven months pregnant and waddling like a duck blindfolded around the house is enough to cause my maternal instinct to shriek warnings in the recesses of my mind.
"Almost there…"he whispered into my ear, his right hand tightening on mine as he gently guided me forward. The warmth of his hand is reassuring and those two small words almost washed away all my fears of banging into something huge and losing our first child but it was only temporary and soon the worries came back in full blast.
It is amazing how long the hall way felt at times like this. Suddenly, Uryuu stopped and I could hear the sound of the key being inserted into the doorknob. The doorknob rattled and the door noisily creep open.
I felt the blindfold around my eyes being tugged and away it fell. As my eyes adjusted to the light of the room, I could make out the wooden baby crib in the centre of the room. It was oblique shaped with a big cross engraved onto the head board. Above it hung a mobile with crosses of various sizes. The fact that they are nonetheless crosses remain.
The wallpaper of the room is baby blue, a soothing colour rather appropriate for the function of the room. There are some motifs on the wallpaper which I cannot really make out at the distance I am at. I stepped deeper into the room to take a closer look. They are mini crosses crisscrossing everywhere.
"How is it? Do you like it?" Uryuu's voice came from the doorway.
As I turned around to face him and answer his question, my eyes caught sight of the wooden cupboard to the far left of the room. The door handles were cross shaped too. The only difference it has compared to the other crosses in the room is that there is a circle in the middle of the cross. My mind began to reel.
"Oh, Orihime…there is something you have yet to see," said Uryuu. With broad strides, he was soon at my side and leading me towards the front of the cupboard. He opened the cupboard and drew the left drawer open. Out came something white. "I made it myself. Isn't it cute?"
He shook the white thing flat so that it hangs down nicely and I could see the whole thing as it is. A baby sized t-shirt with a sky blue vertical line at the right side running from the bottom to the top of the right shoulder and another same blue horizontal line across the middle of the t-shirt. My eyes hypnotically trace the lines to where they meet together. Another cross.
"Here, hold this…I made its pants too!"
I obediently held onto the t-shirt as I watch Uryuu pull open the right drawer. From it, out came a white baby size long pant with a vertical line running up from the right leggings to the top of the pants.
"Look, this is really cool!"
He took the t-shirt from my hands and held it onto the top of the pants so that the lines superposition to form….a huge cross.
"What do you think of it?"
I kept silent for a while. My mind frantically thinking of a way to put him down gently.
"I…don't…I…" I sighed. "Uryuu, don't you think the room is filled with way too many crosses?" I finally blurted out.
He glance around the room and answered. "Not really, its just the symbol of the Quincys! Didn't you know that?"
An impregnable silence passed for aminute or two before he suddenly spoke up again, "So what do you think about it?"
