Rukia tapped her foot nervously on the floor, her hands over the little swollen belly.
"This is taking too long." She murmured, Ichigo still flipping the pages of a magazine that was on the table.
"Calm down, Rukia," he laid his hand on her thigh, his eyes still on the pages of the magazine "They'll call us soon."
"Soon isn't soon enough." She sighs, laying her head back on the chair "I'm still hungry."
"We ate before we got here." he simple said,
"So, I'm hungry again." She sighed louder, Ichigo turning his head to face her "I'm feeding two, strawberry."
Ichigo smirked "I'll take you out to eat when we're done."
She turned her head slightly "I thought you had to work after this?"
"I do, but I still have two hours, I got time."
"Kuchiki Rukia?" a nurse called from the door leading to the other doctors.
"Get up," Ichigo said while pushing himself out of the seat.
Rukia followed, her throat become dry just thinking about those doctors looking down there.
-x-
The gel was so cold, like, really cold. She felt a bit uneasy with Ichigo seating beside her as she laid in the hospital bed with her belly exposed.
The doctor then placed this thing over the gel, rubbing it all around the belly.
"Alright, let's look for your baby." She began pressing down on her belly, her eyes on the screen next to her.
Then, a heartbeat.
A heartbeat.
Rukia felt her eyes water when she looked at the screen and saw this little baby.
"There we go!" the doctor smiled when she pointed at the screen "That's the head right there, and the little hands by the face."
Rukia felt her hand being held.
She looked over at Ichigo whom as smiling up at the screen.
"Ichigo." Rukia almost cried when he looked down and smiled at her.
"Our baby, Rukia."
"It's a boy." The doctor confirmed after a minute of observations "A healthy little boy."
Rukia couldn't help but cry. Ichigo smiled, for the first time, a real, warm smile that she didn't see often.
"Congratulation!" the doctor said before taking the gel off her belly.
-x-
"Arigato!" Rukia spoke cheerily as they walked out of the restaurant "Ah! I never thought eating that much will feel so freaking good!"
"And you wanted a damn taco again." Ichigo smirked lazily as he walked over to his car.
"Shut up." Rukia grinned as she held her belly "How did you like it, Ruchi?"
Then she started giggling as if the baby answered her.
Ichigo couldn't help but smile at the young mother-to-be. It was really the first time he saw her so happy about having the baby since she told him.
She was beautiful.
And to think, when he first heard the news, that Rukia was pregnant with his baby, he truly freaked out.
He couldn't help but sort of hate the baby for even being there.
He was there, growing inside her, and he was his.
But that was then.
Now, he's happy to be having this baby with her.
With Rukia that he has gotten so close to.
That he will literally die for if he had to.
The pain in his ass in the morning with her dumb carvings.
The girl that he was slowly falling for.
"Ichigo?" Rukia poked him once she closed the car door.
"Yea?"
"Where did you come up with the name Ruchi?"
Ichigo smirked "Ru from Rukia and Chi from Ichigo."
Rukia made an 'o' with her mouth.
"That actually makes sense." Rukia breathed, lying back in the seat.
"What is that suppose to mean?" he raised a brow as he drove off.
-x-
"Ruchi?" Toushiro repeated, his head on the desk in front of him.
"Yea."
"That's kind of cute." Renji said awkwardly, his legs crossed.
"Shut up." Ichigo rolled his eyes.
"Ichigo, you have a patient waiting for you." A nursed said by the door of his office.
"I'll be right there."
"I'm still surprise you're having a baby." Renji admitted.
-x-
"A boy!" Momo jumped up from her seat, passing customers of the little café began staring.
"Seat down Momo, you're making a scene."
Momo pouted before she sat back down "Sorry, I'm just a little excited. Who came up with the name Ruchi?"
Rukia grinned "Ichigo."
"Really!" she almost jumped up again, but she saw Rukia's glare and stopped. "Sorry. But still, really?"
Rukia nobbed yes, Momo's smile covering most of her face.
"That is just too cute!"
Rukia blushed a bit "It is?"
"Of course!" Momo took Rukia's hand "You and Ichigo are going to be one happy family when he's born! I'm so happy for you."
"Thanks for that, Momo!" Rukia smiled, tightening the hold on her hand.
"Oh yea, before I forget," she dug in her purse and took out a sheet of paper "Kira is having a before party tonight for graduation."
Rukia looked at the paper, then back at Momo "Are you going?"
"Only if you go with me," She grinned over at her best friend. "I think everyone is going to be there."
"I guess," she leered, "Ichigo won't be home."
"Working?"
"Yea."
Momo took a peck at her cell phone "Alright, Toushiro is at work now too, we can go change at my house?"
"Yea," She said, both girls getting up from the table "But we have to stop at my place and pick up some clothes."
A/N: O.m.g, thank you IcePrincess95 for being my One Hundredth viewer! I'm so happy right now that you don't even want to know. And to think, I was planning on dropping this story too.
Ok, back to this, the next two chapters will be 'The Party', part one and two. You don't want to miss it. Kaien will be there with some 'friends'. Something will happen to Momo that could wreck her relationship with Toushiro. Ichigo and Rukia finally have a real 'romantic' moment you just have to read.
Cant wait!
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