Chapter 29 - Introducing the New Member to One's Lover, Children, Family and Friends, After Waking up From Resting after Giving Birth to One's Fourth Child (Ichigo's part), Waking up, with One's Lover, Close by to One (Renji part) and Facing One's Father, before they are Taken Away to Tell One's Father Can Come Back, After Sorting the Pain Within Them (Grimmjow part)
Ichigo's P.O.V:
"Shh, quietly. Mr. Ichigo, is resting for wee while with his little one."
"Aww, he looks so cute. Where's the camera?"
"Yachiru's got it."
"Twirp, give it, quick."
"Meanie, Baldy."
A shutter clicking, makes me flutter my eyes open to see blurry shapes of people, standing near the Hospital bed, I'm lying in and waiting for my vision to clear, see that – Kenpachi, my lover – and the others are all standing there, watching me with smiles on their faces.
He helps me to sit up, plumping the pillows behind me and leaning against them, allow them to step closer to see the little one – who shifts in his sleep, stretching a wee bit – then flutters his eyes open as he wakes up, from his sleep.
He rubs his eye, with one of his little hands and so he doesn't make it all red, take his hand off as he turns his face to look at me then stroke his cheek, making him nip my finger with little fangs. I look at Kenpachi, who leans close to see is little one and gives me a sheepish grin at me then Ukuro, let's go of my finger as he reaches up to Kenpachi to nip his nose, only to pull back.
"No nipping, Ukuro. Papa's nose, isn't for biting." He says, making my little one pout at him – just like me, when I pouted sometimes – and makes Kenpachi chuckle lightly then waves his hand to tell the others to come closer.
"Aww…. he has your eyes, Kenpachi." Orihime says, while Yachiru clambers onto the bed and Ukuro, stops pouting as he blinks at her – eyes staring into her's – then turning his head, buries his face into my chest.
"Come here, you." I say, bringing him up and he struggles against me, gripping the hospital gown with his hands, tightly then managing to pry him off, hand him to my Father, so he can meet his nephew.
Li-Li, Rye and Kieo, who have clambered on the bed to join me, watch with curiousity as my Father sits down, with their new baby Brother as Ukuro, who just sits in my Father's arms looks at him with curiousity then nips his finger that makes my Father, look at me and Kenpachi.
Ukuro, blinks up at him and pulls back from the nipped finger, soon being handed back to me by my Father, who is now inspecting his nipped finger with look at Kenpachi then Ukuro is clambering up to my face, looking at me. I bring my hand up, slowly ruffling a hand through his hair and he nudges his head into my hand, meaning that he was hungry for something – milk.
"Can someone get me some milk?" I said, which makes Hanataro, head out the room and waiting, while Ukuro, chews on the small kimono he wears that makes me sigh at him as he flicks his eyes to me.
"Mama, he's quiet." Li-Li says to me, which makes him stop chewing his kimono and place both hands on my chest, looking at her with angry face that causes everyone to laugh at it then Hanataro, comes back through to the room and up to the bed.
He hands me – a baby bottle filled with milk – and I take it, then Ukuro is reaching for it, taking the teat straight into his mouth. He begins to suckle, drinking it slowly because I didn't want him to get indigestion and taking it away, wipe his mouth with my sleeve then bringing him to my shoulder, pat his back slightly then he gives small burp, that he had enough.
"Better, now." I ask him, only hearing gentle snuffling in reply and that he had fallen asleep on my shoulder, so indicate that it was time that everyone left so he wasn't disturbed from his sleep as they all, quietly slip out of the room.
Kenpachi, has stayed behind and getting off the bed, helps me to lay down then sits down in the chair – that my Father had vacated – as my other children, soon settle around me to sleep, near their new baby Brother then taking hold of his hand, allow myself to fall asleep, with him close by to me.
So that I knew that he was there, when I woke up the morning.
Renji's P.O.V
A hand, gently stroking my cheek makes me flutter my eyes open to see a blurry shape of my lover – Shiro – freshly washed from the bath, that he been made to had looking down at me then sits down in the chair – that was now vacated of Rukia, who must have left along with Tachoui – as he looks at his sleeping twin Daughters – Kiluya and Sena.
They are fast asleep, holding each other's hands as they lay, curled up against my chest.
He bends down, kissing them each on the forehead, gently not to wake them then pulls back to look at me, smiling with tears of happiness forming in his eyes.
"I'm so glad, that I met you, Renji Abarai." He whispers, leaning close to me to kiss me, lightly on the lips and moving out of the seat, slides onto the bed – which was large enough for two – and places an arm, around the three of us to hold us close to him.
"Shiro…. I'm glad as well. I so happy that were together. Here, with our newborn Daughters." I whisper to him, which makes him nuzzle his nose against mine, affectionally and still, holding all three of us as the both us now fall into a gentle sleep.
Our Daughters, between us, still holding their hands as they sleep with their Mama and Papa, close to them.
Grimmjow's P.O.V:
"Are you sure, you want to do this, Grimmjow-san?"
"Yes. He needs to know."
After, I say those words to Captain Jushiro Ukitake, I hold Shiruko – my newborn son – close to my chest, making him grip the kimono I wear with his little hands for support then come to a halt at the cell that my Father – Aizen Sosuke – is in.
It would be the last time, that I would see him. Because, he was soon to be transferred by Orders of the remaining Central Order 46 to Muken Prison to pay for the crimes that he committed against the Soul Society.
Captain Kuchiki, had told me everything about the time – a long time, ago – that my Father had fallen in love with woman called Mira Okochi of the Jeagerjaques Clan and that she had been my Mother. That as he continued to see her, my Father, developed a full relationship with her. Loving her so much, that he married her in secret and soon she become pregnant with me.
Yet, my Mother was no longer among the living and had passed on. Even though, I had not met her and didn't know what she looked like – a image of smiling woman, standing at doorway of small hut as she rests a hand on her abdomen – will be always be in my head, when I think about her.
I come out of those thoughts, when the guard pulls the iron gate backwards and stepping inside, see that my Father, has been placed in a kind of chair then lifts his head from looking down at the floor. The eye – not covered by the eyepatch – looking at the shadows I stand in and breaks the silence in the cell by saying my name in a voice devoiced of emotion.
"Grimmjow." He says, which makes me step forwards into the light streaming from the barred window above his head, causing the eye to go wide as he sees the child that hold in my arms then tries to get free, from the chair.
"Don't, Father. You'll just make it worse for yourself." I say, going up to him and placing one hand over one of his as he stops, seeing that I'm very close to him then Shiruko, shifts turning his face – which he had buried into my chest – to look at his Uncle.
A hitched gasp, comes from my Father and he turns his head away from the sight – seeing through those eyes, the same look that my Mother, probably used to give him – then moving my hand, place it on his chest, where it rested.
The thing – the Hogyoku – that he placed back inside him and move my hand away from his chest. I could do nothing to help him, because it would try to destroy me if I tried to take it out of his chest and already could tell that it had infused so much into his body, that he would have to look inside himself then continue to speak to him.
"Father, you have to understand that you're not the same, anymore. Like when you loved my Mother – Mira. I cannot unfreeze your heart. You must to that yourself by looking deep, inside you and try to understand what went wrong to cause you to become like this." I say, pointing a finger to where his Soul Chain, lays and turning away from him, head back to the cell door as it is pulled back by the Guard.
"Grimmjow!?" He calls to me, making me turn my face slightly to look at him and he is visibly trembling in the chair then say the words to him. So, he knows that he is not alone and that I will be there for him, when he came back.
"When the time is right, Father. I'll be waiting for you to rejoin your family."
He lowers his head, tears running down his cheeks and plipping onto his lap as I step out the cell – feeling like I was going across a bridge to wait on the other side for him and standing there, until he could come back home to me – his son - and his nephew – Shiruko.