Chapter: Walk Softly and Carry a Big… Uhm… Skate?

Shalan's Say:SORRY GUYS! I know it's been forever since I updated this story! …sobsob… anyways please please PLEASE forgive me I have been having the worst time with school and I am actually writing this chapter instead of doing my homework because I don't want to let you guys down… SO LEAVE A REVIEW AND I'LL POST AGAIN! Otherwise I will have no motivation for posting with no reviews… TT.TT

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Rukia frowned, folding her arms as she sat in the kitchen with Yoruichi. The tanned skater hummed lightly as she cooked. "What I don't understand is why a couple of skaters are watching FOOTBALL of all things…"

"Because it's what they wished they were…" Rukia sighed.

"Manly men doing manly things…" Jushiro mocked with a laugh and Yoruichi shook her head.

"What's this about manly men?" Ichigo strutted into the room. "You weren't talking about me were you?" He flashed a smile and Rukia snorted as he kissed her cheek.

"Nope, we were talking about manly men Ichigo…" Bella chuckled from the pantry. She was showing already, only four months into her pregnancy and the swell in her belly was fairly obvious when she wasn't wearing her usual sweatshirt which she had been seen in lately. "Not girly men…" he jutted his jaw and pinched her butt letting her know that he didn't appreciate her calling him girly. She yelped and giggled girlishly. Though he was a skater, that aside, he had to be one of the most handsome men she had ever seen.

"Oooh… poor baby did someone emasculate you?" Rukia sniggered and he turned to her, jutting his jaw again.

"YEAH! ICHIGO THEY SCORED A TOUCHDOWN!" Kisuke called and Ichigo looked into the other room. He had only recently been told of Bella's impending delivery. Of course everyone else had decided to do it the hard way and take forever to tell him that Bella was pregnant.

"Rukia…" Ichigo snuck her out of the room as Kisuke continued shouting. The door to their left opened and they blinked, looking over as her brother stepped out. They grinned sheepishly and Byakuya stepped past them. He had been staying at her house since they had called him out to watch her practice. Ichigo nearly laughed as they made their way up the stairs. He gasped as she slammed him up against the door outside her room. Their lips clashed and he suddenly felt the heat build, her sex drive had suddenly jumped up during the past few weeks.

"You aren't helping me… by dragging me down a dark hallway…" she whispered and he shook his head to clear it.

"Rukia I want to talk to you…" He pulled her into the bedroom and dropped down before her, suddenly she was back out on the ice rink the day before.

"What…"

"When Kisuke interrupted me the other day…" she recalled it, he had stopped their training and had walked off leaving them on the ice, at that moment Ichigo dropped on one knee and Rukia's heart lept. He had begun his sentence but Kisuke had come back before he could finish it.

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Byakuya drummed his fingers on the wall as the girls gathered around the others. Ichigo leaned against the bar, his arms folded as Kisuke grinned, dipping his fingers into the cheese dip.

"So what is it that you want?" Byakuya frowned as Bella giggled with Rukia lightly next to Ichigo.

"I want to tell you something…" Jushiro looked over as the orange haired skater spoke. Ichigo grinned almost childishly.

"Then speak Kurosaki…"

"Rukia and I are getting married." A squeal came from Yoruichi and Bella, already knowing the news, as Byakuya's temper flared.

"AB-ABSOLUTELY NOT!" Byakuya roared.

"I think you have your own problems to worry about…" as Ichigo spoke it was almost like a slow motion video. They all knew what was coming next. The others moved slowly across the room, hands out reached to try and keep him from telling Byakuya that Bella was pregnant. RUkia's hand slapped his mouth first, then Bella's, Yoruichi's, Jushiro's and Kisuke's respectively. But they were too late. The black haired man hit the floor, hard. They all saw that in slow motion as well. His eyes opened wide in shock then rolled back into his head as he fell like a sack of potatoes to the floor.

"That went over well…" Jushiro blinked as Kisuke and Ichigo immediately burst into hysterical laughter.

"I wouldn't laugh Ichigo…" Rukia looked at him and he blinked. "After all… I'm pregnant too…" her face split into a joyous grin as the other two girls wrapped her in a group hug. Kisuke, fingers in mouth, watched as Ichigo fell to the floor with his future brother in law then smiled, fingers in mouth like a little kid. Jushiro looked over at him, counting in his mind.

"Kisuke…" He burst into laughter that all of the girls figured he was going to choke himself as he removed his fingers. "I'm pregnant too…" Yoruichi said and Kisuke immediately joined the other two on the ground. Jushiro scratched his head as the girls laughed together.

"One… two… three strokes you're out…" he quipped as he counted them out.

"TOUCHDOOOOOOOOOWN!" The TV screamed from the other room.