All right, well here's another chapter, not long now t'ill the good stuff, you will soon be learning about the FOWD club, hehehe, that'll be pretty funny...
Well I hope you enjoy this chapter, and thanks for your reviews!
Training...Day Two…
"What now?" Asked Ichigo annoyed.
"Are you and the boys done sweeping the front porch?" Asked Kyoraku.
"Yes, so when are we going to train?!"
"Train? We are training boys, I've always taught my boys the value of patience and calm, let the Hollow come to you, violence is not part of the job, it must only be used when all other methods have been exhausted," said Kyoraku looking out his office window and gazing at the passing birds as he sipped his tea. Nanao Ise rolled her eyes at him and continued with her paperwork.
"So what would you like for us to do now?" Asked Ishida also starting to grow impatient.
"Sit and drink tea with me," he said; the three boys sat with him by the short table and took a sip of the tea; immediately they all spit it out.
"This isn't tea this is…"
"Sake?" Said Kyoraku smirking.
"What do you think you're doing? Do you know you are giving alcohol to minors?!" Asked Ishida shaking in outrage.
"Eh, if minors today can handle sex then sake should be no big deal," said Kyoraku glancing up at Ishida; immediately Ishida blushed and looked away embarrassed; this did not go by unnoticed by Ichigo.
"What? Ishida, you've…?"
"I…" said Ishida blushing madly.
"It's been more than one?!" Said Ichigo shocked; even Chad was momentarily taken out of his quiet exterior, mirroring Ichigo's shock.
"Yes," said Ishida pushing up his glasses.
"Well who and why didn't you tell us about it?!" Said Ichigo still very shocked and practically screaming.
"It's…it's complicated, and you…how did you know? Have you been spying on me?" Asked Ishida angrily looking up at Kyoraku.
"Still don't remember it well do you? There's no reason why I shouldn't know, if you recall I was…" suddenly he stopped when Nanao walked over to him handing him a giant stack of paperwork.
"I'm finished Captain, now it's your turn to sign at the bottom of the papers, all 3,786 of them," she said; then she left out the door. Kyoraku looked at the stack of papers in front of him disappointed; then he looked at the three boys and a smile graced his face.
"No. Isn't forging illegal?" Said Ichigo immediately crossing his arms over his chest.
"They'll never know the difference, besides, they never check…"
"As much as I would enjoy this, I am afraid I have to leave," said Ishida standing up.
"What? Where?" Asked Ichigo.
"I have matters to attend to."
"I'm sure you do," said Kyoraku with a smug smile on his face; Ichigo and Chad looked at him confused as he left.
Rukia was lying down in a room in the Squad Four hospital. She looked out the window thoughtfully, and placed a hand on her still slim womb. She was startled when she suddenly heard someone walking into the room.
"Uryuu?" Rukia sat up and Ishida sat next to her on the bed. "Why are you here?"
"I wanted to come," he said placing a hand on her womb; this shocked her at first but then she relaxed.
"We need to talk."
"About what?" Asked Rukia.
"About the ba-" suddenly they were interrupted as someone else walked into the room; it was Orihime; immediately Ishida withdrew his hand. Orihime looked a little confused but then she smiled eagerly.
"That's so cute Ishida-kun! You came to see Kuchiki-san's baby's progress!"
"Yeah, she is a good friend Orihime; there is no reason why I shouldn't," said Ishida laughing nervously.
"Are you staying for the ultrasound?"
"I'd love to, but I just remembered, I probably need to go back to Squad Eight," he said, and he ran out of there.
"Well he was in a hurry," said Orihime blinking confused, "so are you ready Kuchiki-san?" Rukia smiled at her and nodded; at that moment Rangiku and Hitsugaya walked into the room. Hitsugaya had a bouquet of roses in his hands; as soon as he saw Orihime there he hid them behind his back.
"Good afternoon ladies," he said bowing slightly.
"Kuchiki-san! You're so lucky to be getting so many visitors today!" Smiled Orihime delighted.
"Well, I umm…I should probably go," said Hitsugaya trying to get out again, but he crashed into Captain Unohana; he fell to the floor with the flowers on his side. The flowers were fine, but they were now revealed; Orihime looked like she was about to cry of happiness.
"Oh my! This day is full of so many cute wonderful moments! You brought Kuchiki-san flowers!"
"Well, yes," said Hitsugaya smiling, and he stood up and handed the flowers to Rukia; she smiled at him.
"I just wanted to wish you luck on your first ultrasound Kuchiki-san," said Hitsugaya bowing slightly.
"Thank you," smiled Rukia smelling the flowers.
"Well now that you're here you can stay and watch Captain Hitsugaya," said Unohana.
"Really? I can?" Asked Hitsugaya surprised.
"Yes of course. And you can watch too Ishida-sama," said Unohana; an embarrassed Ishida walked in through the door; Orihime looked at him confused.
Hitsugaya, Rangiku, and Orihime sat down on chairs while Ishida remained standing by Rukia's bed. Meanwhile Unohana uncovered Rukia's belly and covered it in a purple gel. She ran her hands through it and concentrated her kidou on her womb. Suddenly a hologram appeared above her belly showing a tiny embryo; the heartbeat resounded all over the room. Rukia smiled, and so did everyone else; Ishida slid his hand down and gave her shoulder a small squeeze.
"Oh look it's the little Kuchiki!" Cooed Rangiku.
"He's still so small and he's already so cute Kuchiki-san!" Said Orihime looking a bit too excited.
"Your baby looks very healthy Kuchiki-san; he has a very strong reiatsu."
"I'm glad," said Rukia; a hint of maternal pride on her face.
Ichigo and Chad were trimming the bushes in the Squad Eight garden while Kyoraku was sunbathing and Nanao fanning him with an oversized fan.
"We're done," sighed Ichigo as he and Chad walked over to Kyoraku; Kyoraku sat up and signaled to them with his hand to sit down as well.
"What's taking Ishida?" Said Ichigo.
"Well I'm guessing Rukia's appointment is taking longer than expected," said Kyoraku.
"What? How do you know that?"
"Well that's where everyone is right now, Orihime, Hitsugaya, Rangiku; Ukitake said he would be going as well, but something popped up last minute. Why aren't you there?"
"I didn't know," said Ichigo a bit disappointed.
A while later, Ichigo and Chad left to Squad Eleven's training grounds; there Kenpachi was waiting for them holding his zanpakuto over his shoulder. He looked at Ichigo and grinned.
"Hey there Kurosaki! Ready to fight?"
"Yeah I'm in the mood to kick your ass alright!" Kenpachi immediately ran towards him attacking him with his zanpakuto, and Ichigo countered by releasing his Shikai.
Chad looked at them for a while before being attacked by Ikkaku; immediately he began to battle as well. Ishida arrived a while after their battles began, and he stood there looking around; all the Shinigami there were busy fighting; some of them even fought without zanpakutos; they were drunk and beating each other with brute strength. He felt something tug at his shirt and looked down to find Yachiru looking up at him brightly.
"I saw you so lonely here Ishida-kun, so I found someone to fight with you."
"Huh?" He looked over to the man standing in front of him; it was Yumichika Ayasegawa. He ran a hand through his hair and then looked at him.
"Care to fight?" he said taking out his zanpakuto and releasing it into Shikai form; immediately Ishida released his Quincy bow and the two began to battle.
Orihime and Rukia were sitting in the Kuchiki Estate's gardens. They were having a picnic and sitting on a blanket; Byakuya was sitting on the grass about a meter away from them. Orihime and Rukia were both eating, and Rukia ate the food at an alarming rate; Orihime looked at her surprised.
"Wow…little Kuchiki must be really hungry huh Kuchiki-san?"
"Yeah, sometimes he wakes me up in the middle of the night with cravings, doesn't he nii-sama." Byakuya didn't reply; he only looked at her from the corner of his eye and turned back to look at the blossom trees.
"Well you should eat up so he could get big and strong!" Said Orihime cheerfully placing her hand on Rukia's womb. Then suddenly she felt it, the strong reiatsu from within her; she widened her eyes surprised. She wasn't the only one that noticed; by now Byakuya was turning to look at Rukia's stomach shocked.
"Wow! It even tickles my hand," giggled Orihime, "you want to feel it Kuchiki-sama?"
"I'd rather not," said Byakuya.
"Oh come on, your nephew is so strong, just feel it for yourself," giggled Orihime.
"Orihime really it's all-" but before Rukia finished what she was saying, Byakuya was kneeling in front of her with his hand on her womb, he looked at it curiously and ran his fingers along it.
Orihime wished she had a camera to take pictures of them, they looked so…it was difficult to describe it, there was a serenity there. She thought it was so cute to see Kuchiki-san with her brother; it reminded her of her own brother and how much she missed him. She turned to look at the floor remembering him 'Sora, may you rest in peace'. Orihime was suddenly distracted from her daydream, when she heard Rukia shriek; she turned to see Byakuya pressing his hand a bit too roughly on her stomach; he didn't stop even thought Rukia was in pain.
"Kuchiki-sama what are you doing? You're hurting her!" Byakuya glanced at Orihime coldly and then let go of Rukia; he returned to his previous sitting area.
"The child is too weak to be a Kuchiki, if this does not change by the time of his birth I will not accept him into my home, is that understood Rukia?" Asked Byakuya coldly not even turning to look at her; Orihime turned to look at Rukia who looked like she was a bout to cry but suppressed it.
"Understood nii-sama," she said slightly bowing.
Time at the Squad Eleven Training Grounds went by quickly since they were all immersed in their fighting. All of them had grown stronger; it was already nightfall and they arrived to the conclusion that all three battles were a tie.
"You got pretty good kid," said Kenpachi.
"No I didn't, otherwise I would have kicked your ass all the way to Hueco Mundo," smirked Ichigo.
"Good to see you kids," said Kenpachi patting Ichigo and Chad on the back; then he turned to look at Ishida, "surprised to see you around here so soon Ishida. I thought you had enough training for I don't…a century?"
"We came to see Kuchiki-san," explained Ishida.
"Wait? You've been here recently?" Asked Ichigo surprised.
"Sure he has, he spent part of July and all of August here training. I taught him a thing or two about brute strength huh kid?" Said Kenpachi punching Ishida on the shoulder; Ishida smiled weakly.
"Really I didn't know that, he didn't say anything," said Ichigo looking at Ishida suspiciously.
"Well come on, dinner's on me," said Kenpachi; they all followed him to a bar.
Ichigo was playing speed with Ikkaku while Kenpachi was hand wrestling Chad and Yachiru cheered Kenpachi on; Ishida was sewing Ayasegawa robes which he had accidentally ripped during battle. Once Ikkaku was beaten for the sixth time he finally gave up.
"I'm getting tired of this game, how about we get ourselves some sake huh?"
"Grab as many as you guys want, it's on me," said Kenpachi sitting by the same table as them.
"No I really shouldn't I…" said Ichigo but before he said anything else Kenpachi poured the sake into his mouth; he had a difficult time swallowing it but he did; then he looked furiously at Kenpachi.
"I thought I told you I don't-" but Kenpachi did it again; this time Ichigo looked a bit dazed.
"See, doesn't that feel better?" Smirked Kenpachi.
"Yeah, yeah it does, give me another one!" said Ichigo; the waiter brought mores sake to their table.
"Do you guys want any?" Kenpachi asked Ishida and Chad, but the two stood up.
"No thank you, Chad and I will be heading back to the Squad Ten barracks," said Ishida; the two left.
"All right, but you don't know what you're missing!"
A couple of hours later, Ichigo, Kenpachi, Ikkaku, Ayasegawa, and even Yachiru were completely drunk out of their minds. Ayasegawa was doing an odd dance that was between the Macarena and the tango, while Ikkaku punched the air with his fists; Yachiru was swirling around trying to make herself more dizzy because she wanted to see the 'pretty stars'. Although Kenpachi was pretty drunk, he didn't seem to be having any odd side effects though; he just sat there listening to Ichigo blabber on about chocolate, his orange hair, and bullies he fought back in school; Kenpachi just nodded bored.
"Ken-chan, I'm leaving, I'll see you tomorrow," said Yachiru stumbling towards the door, but before she opened it she collapsed drunk on the ground.
"She can be a real drunk sometimes," sighed Kenpachi.
"Well, I need to go, I don't want to wake anybody up if I come back too late. Stupid Byakuya! Argh! Why isn't he impressed by anything, I mean here I am always trying to score points with him to get with his sister but the man is too damn snobby! Sometimes I think maybe I should just take Rukia with me to the world of the living and erase her memory so she won't worry about what he thinks…"
"Rukia Kuchiki? I didn't know you liked Ukitake's fukutaichou, I mean I knew you were friends but…" Ichigo immediately stood up, stumbling a bit as he did; then he place a hand on his hip and looked at Kenpachi annoyed.
"Of course I don't like Rukia Kuchiki, I am in love with her! I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for her, heck, I wouldn't even know anything about any of you if it wasn't for her! She changed my life, and I love her Kenpachi, I love her!" Said Ichigo frantically shaking him by the shoulders.
"Okay okay I hear ya!"
"Good," said Ichigo letting go of him and crossing his arms over his chest, "and tell whoever the hell the father of her kid is to back off! Rukia's mine!" And with that Ichigo stumbled out of the bar.
"Heh! I wonder if he knows it wasn't sake," smirked Kenpachi as he turned to look at his three officers.
"Mayuri's invention, all the effects of alcohol but without the clouded judgement," smirked Ikkaku.
"It feels very real though," said Yachiru too dizzy to stand.
"So everything Ichigo told you about Kuchiki-san was of his own will?" Asked Ayasegawa.
"Of course, like I said, his judgement isn't affected, but it's funny to see what kids do when they think they're drunk," laughed Kenpachi.
Orihime was sitting outside the Squad Ten barracks staring at the moon. She turned around when she saw Chad and Ishida arrive. Chad walked inside and Ishida was about to as well before Orihime called him.
"Ishida-kun! Over here!" she said waving her hand at him; he looked surprised to see her there, but he walked towards her nonetheless.
"Yes Orihime?"
"Come, sit with me," she said taking his hand and pulling him next to her. Ishida looked at her a bit confused, she gazed intently at the moon and was still clasping his hand.
"It's such a pretty moon isn't it?"
"Yes, yes it is," said Ishida observing the full new moon.
"That was a very nice thing you did today."
"Huh?"
"Kuchiki-san was very happy that so many people came to visit her. Somehow I think deep inside she thought nobody else loved her baby."
"Why would you say that Orihime?"
"I don't know, she has looked very sad lately; I spent some time with her today and she looked really sad. Byakuya-sama was with us the entire time; he made it look like I was going to hurt her or something, and Kuchiki-san looked very embarrassed about it. Not only that, but the way he treated her, it looks like Byakuya-sama doesn't want the baby…"
"Well, you know nobles, they're very strict and picky about who they let into their families."
"Uryu-kun…"
"Yes?"
"You wouldn't treat a sibling like that would you?" Asked Orihime playing with the collar of his shirt; he gulped nervously.
"No Orihime, why do you ask?"
"Well just saying, in the future when you're…married, and your wife has a baby…you would love him right? You would be a good father?"
"Of course, I would love my son very much, even if others didn't love him and even if the situation was difficult and complicated, I would love him nonetheless…with all my heart, he's a part of me after all, my love for him and honor as a Quincy's will not allow me to leave him, even if my family were against it," said Ishida all of a sudden very seriously.
"Wow Uryu-kun! You sound so honest, the woman that marries you will be very lucky," said Orihime embracing him tightly; Ishida returned her embrace. Once they let go of each other Ishida kept his arm around her as they both watched the full new moon.
Ichigo stumbled through the halls of the Kuchiki estate, when once again he bumped into Rukia knocking her down. She stood up enraged, and was even angrier when she saw what condition he was in.
"Ichigo you baka! If you weren't so painfully drunk I would kick your ass right now! What the hell were you thinking? Look at you! Who did this to you?!" Said Rukia infuriated.
"Kenpachi…"
"Kenpachi! Argh! I should have known, and for a moment I was gonna start blaming poor Renji!" said Rukia helping him up.
"Shut up Rukia you're hurting my brain," said Ichigo covering his ears.
"Yeah well that headache is your own damn fault for drinking so much!"
"Whatever, I'm going to bed," said Ichigo stumbling away; he almost fell but Rukia caught him. Ichigo was so large in comparison to her, that she almost fell to the ground. She was saved by the wall, she ended up leaning back on it with Ichigo draped over her; his large frame completely covered hers.
"Ichigo, get off of me!"
"Whaaat?" Asked Ichigo confused looking at her.
"I said get off of me, I can't breathe you idiot you're suffocation me!" Ichigo looked at her curiously; she gasped when he cupped her chin and tilted her face up closer to his.
"You're pretty for someone so short," he said; his amber orbs looking into hers intensely.
"Ichigo you're dru-" he crushed his lips to hers passionately dropping his hands to her hips. Her eyes widened and she tried to push him away but he was too strong. She tried pushing him away again and he growled and deepened the kiss, slipping his tongue inside her mouth.
She could taste the sweetness of his mouth and she found she liked the taste of it; his hands were firm on her hips and his fingers danced pleasantly along them massaging her. She weakly tried to push him away again and one of his hands slipped to the small of her back, his fingers traced her lower spine bringing a sigh from her; that was a part of her body that tired more than all others since she entered her pregnancy. Giving up she wrapped her arms around him and returned his kiss; it surprised her how much easier it seemed to just give in to him, not only easier, but amazingly pleasant; she couldn't get enough of his tongue dancing with hers, exploring the depths of her mouth. They remained that way until both were breathless; she looked into his eyes dazed and he embraced her.
"Rukia I…" but he stopped and pulled away from her when he felt two guards drawing closer. He almost stumbled when he tried to walk towards them.
"Is there something wrong Kuchiki-san?" Asked one of the guards looking at Ichigo dangerously.
"No, he just needs to be carried to his room; he's a bit drunk."
"Are you sure you're all right Kuchiki-san? Kuchiki-sama told us if-"
"Everything's fine, now take him to his room."
"Hai," they said and helped a stumbling Ichigo walk towards his room; before he was out of sight, he gave Rukia one last longing glance.
"Idiot Ichigo, why did you do that? You don't know what you're getting yourself into," she said to herself sadly.