Momo sat smiling beside her friend, it was cute how Ichigo worried so much and his actions showed it.

"Didn't it occur to you that the baby's life could have been jeopardized?" Ichigo was pacing up and down in front of them, his scowling never being so deep.

"I wa-" he cut Rukia off before she could even finish.

"And another thing, did it not cross your mind that that outfits is a bit to revealing for a pregnant woman?" He couldn't help but raise his voice at his frustration.

This woman can drive him crazy.

"Momo," Rukia started pouting over to her friend, "I'm hungry."

You could hear the slap Ichigo gave himself on the forehead.

"Toushiro and Renji went to get you something," Momo patted her back "Do you want something to drink?"

"Momo, can I talk to her for a second alone?"

"Sure, don't be too harsh on her." Momo smiled before leaving the bed room.

Once the door was closed, Ichigo looked down at the pouting Rukia, her arms wrapped around her tummy.

"Just tell me, what the hell were you thinking?" he said it as calmly as he could.

One thing that she put the life of the baby and herself in danger, but to have this random guy catch her was a whole different story.

"What if you fell?" he began pacing left and right in front of her again, his hands over his face "What would you have done then? I gave you one simple request not to do it; couldn't you just listen to me for once?"

"Kaien caught me." She rolled her eyes at him, facing the wall next to her. "Stop worrying so much."

"Worry so much?" he began laughing a bit "I always worry since it's you that we're talking about. You never listen."

"I told you not to worry about me," she huffed, getting up from her seat "Stop acting like you care."

She was acting like it was nothing.

"I have to care," he breathed for a second, not wanting to yell at her "It's our bab-"

She stood in front of him, her pointer finger on his chest "When did it become our baby? Last time I asked you, you didn't even want it."

"What are you talking about?" he asked.

"The time I asked you did you want the baby at the park," her head was down now, her hands over the tummy "That was when I told you I was pregnant."

Damn it.

"Rukia," he laid his hand on her shoulder but she quickly shrugged it off "let me explain."

"No need," she turned around, walking to her drawer "I was just as unprepared as you and I could have gotten rid of it, but you wouldn't let me."

He couldn't say anything.

He had nothing to say.

"Speechless?" she grinned, "Because you know I'm right." She began taking out clothes "I should have gotten rid of it when I had the chance."

He walked behind her "Don't say that."

"Why shouldn't I?" once she had a pair of black shorts with a pink tee, she turned around "You don't want it, I don't want it."

"Wait…"

Rukia looked up at him, hoping to hear something.

Something like I want the baby.

But he didn't say anything.

Rukia smirked "I'm going to take a shower."

Few Hours Earlier

"Ichigo." Rukia breathed when she felt arms below her catch her from a fall that could have been devastating.

She hugged the said man immediately.

"If that's what you want to call me." Her eyes shot open, it wasn't Ichigo.

"Kaien?" she looked at the guys face.

He was smiling down at her.

"I can't have you getting hurt;" he still held her in his arms "you're too pretty."

She couldn't help but smile.

Momo quickly ran over "Thank goodness you're alright!" she put her hand on Kaien's shoulder "Thanks Kaien."

"It was nothing," he was still smiling "I'll do anything for you two."

Rukia and Momo blushed.

They heard someone clear their throat.

"Shiro?" Momo turned and saw her boyfriend "When did you get here?"

"Rukia," Ichigo came from behind, making his way to her "Are you alright?"

Rukia nobbed, forgetting Kaien was still there.

Ichigo laid his hand on her forehead, "You're cold."

That's when Kaien let her down, Ichigo just know noticing him.

"And you are?" Ichigo asked rudely.

Rukia hit his chest with the back of her hand "He's Kaien."

"He's a friend." Momo added, her boyfriend had his arm around her.

"Nice meeting you." Kaien grinned, offering him his hand "Is Rukia your girl?"

"No," Rukia answered before Ichigo could "He's just a friend."

For some reason, Ichigo felt anger towards this guy.

And Rukia's words kind of stung.

But she's right, they are only friends.

Friends that are having a baby.

"Let's go." Ichigo put his hand on her shoulder.

"But the game isn't ov-"

Ichigo picked her up "Let's go."

-x-

"I think I might really want this baby," he murmured from his seat on the edge of her bed. "I practically raised my sisters. I'm sorry for when I said I didn't want it."

"Did you say something?" Rukia heard it, but she just wanted him to say it again.

"I'm sorry for when I said I didn't want this baby." He huffed it out, pink creeping on his cheeks "Having this baby might really change things."

Rukia started smiling as she dried her hair.

"How hard was that?"

She saw him roll his eyes from her mirror.

"Rukia," he walked in front of her and kneeled, her smile disappearing. "Don't act like what you did wasn't dangerous."

They were now face to face.

"Why do you like doing that to me?"

She looked down.

She kept her eyes on her belly.

"Was I going to lose it if, you know?" she had a slight sobbing sound to her voice.

She was going to cry if he answered it yes.

It would have been her fault that it died,

And she couldn't bare that burden.

"Yea," he cupped her face, her eyes shining from the tears filling them "We would have not got to see it."

We?

Rukia giggled a little from that.

"Know you want to see it?"

Ichigo sighed.

"I thought you didn't even want it?"

"I said I was sorry." He turned his head "I was being an ass."

She hugged him.

"I'm sorry." She said between her sniffing.

He froze.

Was he supposed to hug her back?

"I should have listened to you, for once." She giggled a little.

He liked it when she was happy and not forcing him to get her nasty looking tacos.

"I'll try to listen." She smirked.

Was he supposed to hug her?

He raised his arms towards her,

But when it came to placing it around her waist, it never got there.

He's arms dropped to his side again.

"If you ever do this again, I will take you to work every day and lock you in your room at night," he whispered it in her ear, her arms still around his neck.

A shiver went down his spine when she tightened her grip on him.

"Do I make myself clear?"

"Nope." She laughed in his ear.

"Good."

A/N: Well, Ichigo isn't still sure about his feeling towards Rukia, but slowly but surely, he will start feeling and seeing something that wasn't there before. Hehe, how about that momment? It took a lot of rewriting and cutting out to get it.

And about 'it', as they call it, they will start growing attach to it too. {the baby}

Ichigo lecture sucked! Sorry.. :( I just didn't have a clue on how he can lecture her without him actin like her father or a boyfriend, which he isn't.

SORRY!

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