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Beer For My Horses: Oneshot. Ichigo, Uryu, Renji and Toshiro reflecting on what has happened in the past and good friends. Humor K+

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Chapter: Birthday to Remember

Shalan's Speak: XDDDD this chapter should be fairly funny… uhm… wish Uryu good luck… because he's going to need it… XDDDD

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Ichigo sighed as the blonde sitting next to him cross her legs. His eyes nearly fluttered down but he looked out the window. Rukia would slap him silly if she even caught wind of him looking at another woman.

"Why does he have to take so long?" He yawned and Uryu looked over.

As soon as they had arrived in Las Vegas they had argued. And they had argued the entire time they had been there. Ichigo wanted to rig the machines that Gin used and Uryu said they didn't have time… in the end the unit commander had won out and Uryu was forced to accompany him on a mission to hack into the security systems and rig the machines that their enemy played on, Ichigo snickering the entire time.

"Are you in yet?" Uryu asked and Ichigo looked at him over his shoulder.

"I hate that question…" He typed furiously on the computer then suddenly the entrance screen to the system programming site opened and he handed the computer to Uryu and he sighed, dealing with rigging the machines as Ichigo pulled on his suit jacket. "I feel like a spy…" Ichigo said suddenly and Uryu slowly turned his head to look at his best friend over his shoulder.

"Ichigo…" he blinked staring at his best friend's back. Ichigo turned to look at him. "You are a spy…" Ichigo grinned.

"Something like that…" He chuckled then turned back around.

"What are you doing over there? Jacking off to a picture of your wife?" Uryu stood up and walked over. "Are you… texting?" Uryu sniggered.

"Why yes I am…" Ichigo typed something in and sent it, closing the cell phone.

"To whom?" Uryu tilted his chin and Ichigo smacked his throat.

"Nunya…"

Uryu frowned as he looked over at Ichigo. "I have no idea what's taking him so long… maybe you should learn to be more patient…"

"So where are we going again?" Rangiku asked softly. The two men looked over at her with twin dull expressions.

"To…Michigan… to keep you safe…" Ichigo reminded her and she nodded, looking out the window to the small airport.

She had ended up being fairly easy to track down and capture. It turned out that she was a fairly well known dancer in town and once they mentioned her name they were directed towards her apartment. Which was fairly nice to say the least, obviously Gin had kept her well paid.

"Uryu…" Ichigo pointed at Uryu's phone as it rang and he picked it up.

"How do you do that?" He stared at him and Ichigo shrugged, looking out the window. "Ishida here, go."

"Uryu!" He heard the voice of his wife on the other line and his heart sunk.

"Jesus Christ…" she didn't even have to speak. "How long… what's… how are you?" Ichigo chuckled and Rangiku looked confused.

"His wife must be going into labor… 'least that's what it sounds like." Ichigo chuckled.

"URYU!" he froze. She had been trying to get his attention. "Thank you, they're going to have to induce me… I asked them how long I could wait and they said a few more hours at best…" Uryu breathed, considering the facts.

"Wait… if they have to induce you… then you're already past the delivery date…" He realized this and heard her laugh.

"Yes… by two days…" he could hear the smile in her voice.

"YOU COULD HAVE-you could have told me…" he felt his blood boil. But he couldn't allow himself to shout at a pregnant woman.

"I know… but I didn't want to upset your plan…" she heard him practically roar and the phone flew through the air and smashed into a thousand tiny pieces.

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"He sounded angry…" Kazumi looked at the phone and Rukia snorted, Masaki in her lap.

"He probably is… you did lie to him…" Rukia chuckled as Masaki chewed happily on a rubber ring that her mother had bought her.

"She is so adorable…" Kazumi reached over and ruffled Masaki's hair.

"Thank you… I'm sure Ryuu will be just as…" She smiled and Kazumi nodded.

"Thank you for being here Rukia…" The two had become close friends over the past couple of years, as they were in the same situation.

"It's no problem… I've been through delivery before…" she smiled and Kazumi smiled back.

"You didn't have to be induced…" her face tinged pink and Rukia patted her hand.

"C'mon doll… it's nothing to be embarrassed about… it happens to first mothers all the time… so I got lucky…" Rukia smiled and Kazumi nodded. "You're worried about him not being here aren't you?" Rukia looked at her and Kazumi nodded again, her baby blues sad.

"Yeah… and when he does get here he's going to be steaming…" Kazumi frowned and Rukia squeezed her hand.

"Everything's going to be alright… we both know Uryu, he's not going to be mad once he sees how much pain you're in… and besides… it's good to have a man with you so you can shout at him…" She chuckled. "I think I actually hurt Ichigo's feelings… but I apologized afterwards…" Kazumi laughed slightly.

"I hope he'll be here…" she looked out the doorway.

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"FINALLY!" Uryu was nearly wetting himself with anticipation as he sprinted the 80 yards between the jet and the airport in 3 seconds flat. Ichigo blinked. He had never seen his best friend move that fast. Except when they had been stationed in Vietnam and the air conditioning had broken… then when they had announced that there would be FREE cold water Uryu had disappeared from their room so quickly Ichigo had sworn that he had evaporated.

"Is he always so… excitable…" Rangiku lifted an eyebrow as they boarded the plane.

"No…" Ichigo hung his head as Uryu nearly bounced in his seat shouting orders at Kisuke. The blonde blinked at him then shrugged and checked to make sure everyone was buckled in.

"Rangiku!" He cheered and she cheered back, giving him a high five.

"You two know each other?" Ichigo sighed and they nodded.

"We met a few years ago at a dance club in Vegas…" as the plane lifted off Uryu was panicking again. Ichigo put a hand on his shoulder.

"We'll get there in time…" Uryu nodded and just sat there, bobbing his head and Ichigo laughed.

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14 hours later Ichigo sat next to Rukia, their sleeping daughter in his arms, his wife's head against the side of his chest, his arm wrapped around her. He was nodding off, his wife already asleep. Kazumi had been in labor for nearly 9 hours now or at least… that was what the two friends thought. They weren't exactly sure… they were both basically asleep.

"ICHIGO!" Something poked him in the face. "ICHIGO!" Ichigo shook his head and blinked. "Ryuu!" He held a bundle in his arms that didn't even look like a baby at first and Ichigo was almost thinking his friend had gone crazy until the bundle lowered and inside was a small, rather pink, baby with a mop of thick black hair.

"This is the pipsqueak?" Ichigo reached out and took the baby from his nearly dancing father. "Masaki… didn't have this much hair…" Uryu blinked.

"He does have a ton of hair doesn't he…" Uryu blinked again. Ichigo nodded and nudged Rukia.

"Hmm?" She sat up and rubbed her eyes. "Baby!" She cheered and happily took the baby from her husband. "Aweee… you are just the cutest!" She laughed and the baby opened his eyes. "And what beautiful eyes you have…" she smiled, the huge pair of baby blues stared up at her then the baby blinked. "Ryuu… let's go see your momma…" she stood up and walked off. Uryu bounced off after her and Ichigo stood up, picking up Masaki and carrying her with him.

"You are so lucky…" Rukia smiled. "I always wanted a son…" she felt a hip bump hers and looked up at Ichigo. He wrapped an arm around her waist as Uryu bounced on the balls of his feet next to his wife and child. Kazumi looked out the window. Snow was falling silently outside… and she felt at peace with the world… she had the feeling… that it would be a while before anything too bad happened again… she smiled down at the baby in her arms.

'…you are one special boy…' she thought and leaned down, planting a kiss on his forehead.

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I LOVED THAT CHAPTER! I'm horrible at stuff like that but I thought it was kinda fun XDDD I laughed through most of it… anyways… now I have to go write the next chapters in Apostando and The Best… TT.TT I have spoiled you all so badly… spoil me and my other stories and gimme some reviews.

Shalan