Sorry for the delay on this one, many dif fanfics to work on at once! Anyway, expect faster updates than this one in the future...hopefully...depends on how much people review, good # of reviews= faster updating!

"Ok, got the bags?" Ichigo asked, zipping up his coat.

"Yup." Rukia replied happily, holding Hisana who was playing with her bunny.

"Then let's head out." Ichigo stated as the two of them walked through the Senkaimon Gates. Today was an esspecially good day for some relaxation. After much work, they were given a week off to simply relax and enjoy themselves, as well as with the baby. Considering that some of their friends are Shinigami, and knowing that they would be to busy with missions and such, they decided it would be a glorious oppertunity to take their vacation in the human world. They knew that their friends and family would be excited to see them, esspecially since they haven't met since Rukia gave birth to the baby. They were just as excited as they believed their friends were, esspecially the family. And to make matters even better, the weather was suppose to be amazing for the entire month, giving them full oppertunity to take advantage of the week long vacation. After much trecking through the dark border, they finally saw the exit of their long walk, stepping through it to see they were not only in the world of the living, but right in front of Ichigo's house.

"Take a good look, Hisana." Ichigo said, rubbing his daughter's head. "This is where your parents used to live, and inside you'll get a very warm..." Ichigo started as he opened the door. His speech was caught off though as a little figure dived head first into his stomach.

"ITZYGO!" Nel said, excitedly (I can never make a Bleach Fanfic without mentioning Nel at least once, I can't help it she's just to cute to be let out of it X( don't sue me), diving head first into his stomach, causing him to collapse on his back. Rukia quickly jumped back a bit to avoid Ichigo landing on her and the baby. "Nel misseded you so muches! You were gone fow so wong!" Nel yelled happily. Ichigo grunted a bit to himself as he gently carried Nel off of him.

"And apparently he's here." Karin said, appearing from behind the door.

"Welcome home, Ichigo!" Yuzu said, happily.

"Would you please stop doing...ACK!" Ichigo yelped as two more large figures jumped on him.

"Ichigo!" They yelled happily. Ichigo quickly pushed the two large figures off of him, somewhat gasping for breath. As he looked back, he grew a confused look as he saw one skinny guy with blonde hair, a green shirt, and grey pants, while the other guy who was practically two times his size had a large yellow shirt on, brown pants, and was bald.

"What the? Who the heck are you two?" Ichigo stammered. Nel blinked curiously at what he asked.

"What 'chu means? Don't you wecognizes dem?" Nel asked. Ichigo just continued to stare blankly at the two figures for another minute before his eyes widened.

"What the? Pesche and Dondochakka?" Ichigo stammered. "What the heck are you guys doing here?" Ichigo asked as he got back to his feet. Nel's attention shifted as she blinked curiously, seeing the little baby in Rukia's arms.

"Who's dat?" Nel asked, walking a bit closer. Rukia just smiled a bit as she kneeled down a bit, holding the baby carefully.

"This is our daughter, Hisana." Rukia answered. Nel just looked at Hisana a bit curiously, being the first time ever meeting her, before smiling.

"Hi Wisana." Nel greeted, holding out a hand, expecting to shake hers. The baby just blinked a bit as she simply looked at Nel's hand, growing a disoppointed look on Nel's face. "Awen't 'chu gonna say hewwo back?" Nel asked. She squealed for a sec as Ichigo picked her up from behind, setting her on his back like she did when she wanted a 'Horsie Ride'.

"She's only a baby, Nel. She can't really talk or do much that you'd probably expect." Ichigo replied, calmly. Nel just moaned a bit dissopointingly before she decided to forget about it, remembering the fact she was really excited Ichigo was back from a long loooooooooong time. The peace walk into the living room didn't last forever though as an annoying member of the family made his appearance...

"ICHIGO MY BOY!!!!" Isshin yelled happily, jumping straight towards Ichigo. Ichigo grunted as he simply lifted his foot, causing Isshin to land face first into his son's foot before landing back to the ground. The others looked back as they heard Hisana giggling, clapping her hands playfully.

"Ok, is this going to be a constant thing with you, because if it is we're leaving." Ichigo stated.

"But you guys just gotted hewe..." Nel replied, getting watery eyed.

"Oh relax Nel, we're not going to leave." Rukia said, rubbing the back of Nel's head comfortingly.

"Besides, he would be an even worse father if he left his entire family behind him." Pesche commented, causing Ichigo to flare up.

"What is that suppose to mean?!" He stamemred, causing Dondochakka and Pesche to jump a little and fall to the ground. Nel just laughed a bit at the sight as Ichigo took a seat on one of the couch cousions, with Rukia sitting right next to him. Except for Dondochakka and Pesche, most of the family sat in different chairs or cousions.

"So what brings you here, Ichigo?" Yuzu asked.

"I should be asking that question to Nel. What are you three doing here?" He asked, looking up at Nel.

"We's been wiving in Uwahawa's basement. It's so big and pwenty of woom to pway in!" Ichigo just groaned a bit to himself.

"When I asked him to come up with an idea for you three to live, I didn't mean in his basement!" Ichigo replied.

"Y-You mean...you didn't want Nel to wive cwoser to y-you?" Nel asked as tears rolled down her eyes, causing Ichigo to go into a somewhat worried state.

"N-No! I don't mind that! It's just that it was unexpected." Ichigo quickly replied, keeping Nel from crying.

"Anyway..." Rukia started, taking over the conversation from where Ichigo left off, "we're pretty much on a week long vacation, and we thought it'd be good to visit the place again. I haven't seen any of you since Hisana was born." Isshin suddenly gasped at what she just said. Rukia suddenly flinched as Isshin quickly swiped Hisana away, running up towards the life sized poster of Masaki.

"Look Masaki! Our granddaughter finally has her name! And to think it only took the delinquents about 10 months to think of a name!" Isshin said, holding the baby up to his chin and having her face towards the poster. Most of the Kurosaki residence, except Yuzu, Nel, Pesche, and Dondochakka, moaned, irritated that he still had the same poster for the past years. It was one thing to keep a family photo, which they still have, but its annoying when he keeps looking up to the poster.

"Dad, will you please get rid of that thing? At first you were being creepy but now your being annoying!" Ichigo yelled.

"Nonsense!" Isshin replied with a stern look. "It's been in the family since our beloved Masaki went on! I would never do anything to get rid of..." His rambling speech was cut off though as they heard ripping. When they looked back, Isshin squealed like a girl as he saw Hisana tearing part of the poster apart, starting from the bottom until the rip grew up to half way up the poster, more or less, Masaki's neck from the top of her forehead. "Noooooo!" Isshin yelled in horror, falling back as he began to fient. Rukia quickly ran as she grabbed Hisana before Isshin fell with him.

"So, hows life been since Hisana was born?" Yuzu asked, curiously. Ichigo just smiled a bit as he grabbed Nel who was on his shoulders, gently setting her down in his lap as Rukia sat near him.

"Well, pretty much life's been as normal as any couple with a child. Whenever we're on a mission, we have Ukitake, Byakuya, or Matsumoto babysit." Ichigo replied, causing Nel to look at her curiously.

"Won't dat huwt hew dough?" She asked, curiously. Rukia just giggled as she looked back at Nel.

"It's just a figure of speech, more like baby watching." Rukia answered.

"Ooohhh..." Nel replied, somewhat relieved no one actually sat on the baby.

"By the way, where's Kon?" Ichigo asked, looking around the room.

"Still same as usual, hiding in your closet." Karin replied, looking up at the ceiling.

"And why dare I ask?"

"Because he keeps thinking your going to put him back in the lion doll thing.

"To be honest, first few months of taking care of her were tiring, but we kinda grew into a routine of it as if it was normal." Rukia added, looking back at the rest of the family.

"I'll never forget the day she was born either..." Ichigo stated, rubbing his daughter's head gently as he looked back on the day...

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"OH MY FREAKING GOD THIS HURTS!" Rukia shouted, groaning as she was in labor. They couldn't obviously use a normal hospital, on the added fact it was a soul being born, so they had the members of the fourth division helping out. Alot of people had gathered, mostly Zaraki, who was eager to see if the baby was strong to fight one day, Yachiru, Renji, Matsumoto and Hitsuguya, who was forced to come here since Matsumoto practically dragged him all the way, and surprisingly Byakuya as well. Even though he didn't show it, he was somewhat excited about seeing the new heir to the Kuchiki clan, more or less just excited about the baby. The louder Rukia groaned the harder she squeezed the covers on the bed. Only one person, who was most important, was missing from this.

"Where the hell is Ichigo?" Renji asked, a bit angrily as he looked around. It was true that most of his friends had gathered, including his own family, but the one important person missing was the man of the family. Everyone suddenly looked as they heard running. As they looked down the hallway, they heard the sound of running get louder as it got closer. Finally, to their somewhat surprise, the runner finally appeared, aka, Ichigo. He panted a bit as he leaned on the wall with one arm. His head was dripping a bit of blood down his neck, and the right sleeve of his kimono was torn up to the shoulder, and they could see a bit of blood dripping from his right arm down to the tip of his finger.

"Never...send me on a hollow mission...on a day like this... EVER AGAIN!" He said, irritated and annoyed.

"Geeze, you look like crap." Renji commented.

"So do you." Ichigo smirked. Isshin and the twins held him back as he tried reaching towards Ichigo, wanting to hit him for the comment. The screaming in the room made Ichigo jump a bit as he quickly remembered why he came here in the first place. He tossed his kimono to the side of the wall as he ran into the room, seeing the operation had already started.

"Ichi...go..." Rukia muttered, squeezing her eyes tightly as she squeezed harder on the bed. Ichigo quickly ran over to Rukia's side, kneeling a bit.

"Relax, I'm he...ACK!" Ichigo squeeled as Rukia grabbed him by the neck with a firm grip.

"THIS FREAKING HURTS ALOT!" She shouted, right into his ear. As she grunted, she began to squeeze harder, to Ichigo's displeasure, feeling as she began to practically squeeze the air out of him.

"Your doing good, Rukia." Unohona commented as the operation continued. "Just a bit of a more push." Rukia practically screamed the more she felt like she was going to burst, gritting her teeth tightly. In Ichigo's current wounded state, he was powerless to break Rukia's surprisingly tight grip on his neck, that only continued to grow the more she screamed in pain.

"I can see the head." Unohana said, even though neither Ichigo who was suffocating at the time, nor Rukia who was grunting a lot in pain, could hear. The two of them suddenly looked as they heard a baby's crying. Rukia gave one last loud shout as she leaned up a bit in her bed, before collapsing back down on it, and letting go of Ichigo's neck. He dropped to his knees as he through his hand around his neck, rubbing a bit as he finally began gasping for air. Rukia moaned a bit to herself as she started taking deep breaths to herself. Ichigo stretched his back a bit before looking back at Rukia, worriedly.

"Are you ok?" Ichigo asked. Rukia sniffled a bit as she smiled past the tears that continued to roll down her face.

"Y-Yeah..." She said, with a slight hint of pain in her voice.

"Excuse me." Unohana said, getting their attention. As they looked, they saw she had already wrapped the baby in a bundle, a complete white blanket. "I believe you would want to see your new baby daughter, right?" Unohana suggested. Ichigo smiled a bit as he walked over, grantly grabbing the still crying baby. He smiled a bit, seeing how the little one was full of energy from the screaming. He looked back at the door as he heard it sliding open.

"Hey, is it over?" Yuzu asked. Ichigo looked back at Rukia, waiting for some sort of reply. She smield as she simply nodded, giving Ichigo the ok. He smiled as he nodded back, walking towards the door and out the hallway. The minute he did, he was practically swarmed by everyone in the hall, except for Byakuya, who simply stayed calm as always, although in truth, he was just as excited as everyone else was about the new born.

"Awww, she's so cute." Yuzu commented, smiling even as the baby was crying.

"I've never been so proud." Isshin said, as a tear drop drammatically rolled down his eyes. He opened one eye though as he noticed everyone was still ignoring him, more or less than they have been since he got here.

"Too bad she didn't have a different father." Renji joked.

"And what is that suppose to mean?!" Ichigo stammered.

"Well you have my congratulations Ichigo." Orihime said happily, looking at the baby.

"Thank's Orihime." He said back, knowing it was somewhat hard for her to come to the birth of his daughter, knowing that she loved him as much as he loved her, but more so over, Rukia. "Say, where's Chad and Ishida?" He asked.

"Umm..." Orihime started, putting her finger to her bottom lip as she went into thought. "Ishida can't really be directed towards Shinigami, which is kind've expected because of his dad, and Chad opened up his own Dojo for self defense training." Orihime answered. "So, unfortunately, neither of them had the time, sorry." Ichigo simply sighed, somewhat expecting this.

"Awww look Hitsuguya, isn't she just precious?" Matsumoto squeeled. Hitsuguya just blinked a bit as he simply looked at the baby.

"It looks all squishy a bit." He commented. He yelped a bit as Matsumoto smacked him on the head.

"They always look like that when they're born." She said back, annoyed with Hitsuguya's cheesey additude.

"Awww, look Kenny, it's cute." Yachiru awed as she sat upon his shoudlers. Kenpachi simply smirked a bit.

"I just hope the little chump will be as strong as his dad." He said, a bit excited.

"For the last time, I'm not letting you fight my daughter." Ichigo replied, irritantly. Ichigo looked at Byakuya a bit curiously, surprised he had remained silent the whole time. "What about you? Got anything to say?" He asked. Byakuya simple smirked a bit as he turned around, beggining to walk away.

"I have nothing to say to you for being late, but give my congratulations to Rukia." Byakuya said as he flashed stepped away. Ichigo smiled, knowing he was simply trying his best to hide his true emotions about the birth, even though he didn't care. He was just happy that all his friends and family were able to be there. Ichigo looked back as he heard Unohana appearing from the door.

"Rukia would like to see her baby now. I'm afraid I'll have to ask all visitors to leave." Unohana stated. There were complaining moans from the females of the group, and Isshin himself, but put up no arguement as it was Rukia's and Ichigo's baby girl. As everyone said their goodbye and lucks, Ichigo carried the still crying infant into the room, handing it to Rukia.

"There there, don't cry." Rukia cooed.

"Do you have a name yet?" Unohana asked. Rukia and Ichigo looked at each other somewhat depressingly before looking back at Unohana. Rukia simply shook her head.

"Sorry, but we don't have one right now." Rukia replied.

"Well that's alright. Just send me a call as soon as you get a name thought of., ok?" Unohana replied. Both parents smiled as they looked back down at the baby. They both went through really tough times, esspecially for Ichigo who had to deal with the always hungry and angrier than usual Rukia, and Rukia who had to experience the whole entire child birthing process, but either way they came to it, they were both that now they were an entire family............

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"And that's pretty much how it...Ow!" Ichigo yelped as he felt Rukia smacking him on the back of his head.

"You jerk!" She stammered. "Who told you I said that stuff about it hurting before you got there?!"

"Renji did of course. I didn't know how the first half of the operation was going so I had to ask him." Ichigo replied. Rukia felt a blood vessle boiling in her head as she thought about Renji and how he just shot her in the back.I am so going to kill you...She thought to herself, before looking back at the baby.

"But it was worth it all I guess." Rukia commented, stroking a bit of the baby's hair. "We now have a cute little girl out of it." She added, touching the baby's nose with her finger. The baby squeeled in delight as she grabbed her mother's finger, wobbling it up and down playfully.

"So what are you going to do on your time off, Ichigo?" Yuzu asked curiously.

"Well we do plan on staying around here for the time off, but first we figured we'd go visit our friends as well. Ishida or Chad haven't even seen little Hisana yet, and Orihime will probably be excited to see how big she's gotten over the past ten months." Ichigo answered.

"And..." Rukia started, leaning against Ichigo's shoulder, "Probably try to get some 'alone' time."

"Nel too!" Nel stated climbing up on Ichigo's shoulder.

"Sorry Nel, but it's just for me and Rukia." Ichigo replied, gently setting her back down on his lap.

"Awwww..." Nel complained. Rukia smiled a bit, knowing Nel really did want to play with Ichigo, esspecially after all this time, but knew she couldn't be around as often as she wanted.

"But you can play with Hisana while we're gone." Rukia commented.

"Horray!" Nel cheered. The other's just laughed a bit until Dondochakka looked at Ichigo.

"So Ichigo, what's the next plan?"

"Like I said, next stop, Orihime's..."

Next chap, we see *gasp* ORIHIME"S BOY FRIEND as well as some other things. Remember, have a request about what you wanna see in the fic, post it in review, but nothnig related to Hisana when she's older, that'll be for another fanfic...