Chapter 22
Baby
By Demon-of-Cats
Disclaimer: I don't own Bleach, the Tite does. I own my OC's and OOC's
Warnings: This is AU and has some spoilers.
No Flames please, but constructive criticism is welcome.
Komamura walked into the room slowly, surprised to note that his wife was still in bed. She was awake, but she was still in bed.
He glanced at the living room and chuckled when he thought about the fact that she had rearranged the room countless times in the last nine months. He didn't really care, but it did get Tôsen confused every time he came over.
"You alright, Moria?" Komamura asked as he turned his attention back to his heavily pregnant wife. She was over due by several days now and he was worried. Unohana had told him that everything would be fine but, he wasn't so sure. He noticed how she laid and began to massage some of the tense and knotted muscles. He was rewarded with a moan of pleasure.
"I'm fine Sajin," Moria mumbled contentedly as he rubbed her back, "I'm just a little tired still. I'm also too uncomfortable to sleep."
"Do you want me to stay home today?" Komamura asked, anxious. His hands moved to another area of her back, one that had troubled her most recently.
Moria looked up in thought and pleasure for a moment and then shook her head, "No. I don't feel too different and if you stay home too much longer General Yamamoto is going to get mad."
"I think he understands the current predicament. You are several days over due."
"No testing of General's boundaries. I'll call you if something happens."
Komamura chuckled and then he nuzzled into her hair and asked, "Anything specific you want to eat tonight?"
"Your grilled steak and Shinji's clam chowder."
Komamura chuckled and then he placed his hand on her belly, feeling where their child was kicking, "Rest if you can, I won't be late coming home."
"I know, love you."
"Love you too. See you tonight."
She kissed him on the muzzle before he pulled away and then watched as he walked out the door.
An hour later she looked at her bulging abdomen and said, "How about you behave for the next hour so I can have a nice bath?"
Her abdomen had nothing to say.
"I'll take that as a yes."
Moria smiled and then went to the bathroom and perched on the edge of the bathtub as she ran the water. She breathed in the steam from the bath and then once it was full she undressed and lowered herself into the water.
"Ohh this feels soooo goooood," she moaned as she let her body relax.
She had only relaxed for about six minutes when a pain went through her abdomen.
"I said behave!" Moria growled and then glanced up to see where her spirit pager was, "Of course you would choose to come when it's all the way across the room."
She frowned and then tried to lift herself out of the water but another contraction took hold of her and she was forced to lie back down.
Then, with the next contraction, there was a very sudden feeling of movement as the baby exited her womb and into the water. Reaction was quick and the baby was above the water in a moment.
Using kidô she cleared the mouth and then the baby cried.
Moria smiled and then glanced around the room. She found a pair of scissors and then used them to snip off a strip of fabric from her uniform. Using the fabric and scissors she clamped off the umbilical cord and cut it, leaving the baby boy free from the placenta. She then cleaned him off and wrapped him in a towel before cleaning up the tub.
"Well," Moria muttered after she was done cleaning and getting dressed, "Better get to Squad Four so that we can check if you are healthy. You seem to be though," she said as she lifted the infant into her arms and cuddled him. He cooed and she smiled, "You have your daddy's ears I see. And a tail!"
She chuckled and cuddled with the infant and then when she arrived at Squad Four she was immediately met by the third seat, Yasochika Iemura.
He blinked at her for a moment and then hurried over, "What might be the problem ma'am?"
"A medical check if you could please ask either Captain Unohana or Lieutenant Kotetsu."
"I could do the check for you," Yasochika said and walked to her side.
"I prefer a woman," Moria said, "No disrespect intended. Oh! Captain Unohana!"
"Mrs. Komamura," Unohana said as she walked over, "What can I do for . . . is that a baby by chance?"
"Yes it is a baby, my baby in fact. I had him about twenty minutes ago give or take a minute."
Unohana blinked for a moment and then, "I know why you are here then. Come on; let's get the little one checked out. I'll examine you after I give your little one his first check up."
Moria smiled and then looked at Yasochika, "Could you please inform my husband and brother that they need to come here please?"
Yasochika saw Unohana give him a look over Moria's shoulder and he said, "Of course. Would you like me to give them the reason?"
"No," Moria said, "I'll let them know that when they get here."
"Of course," Yasochika said and bowed to the two of them, "I will get right on that. Good day."
Moria watched him go and then followed Unohana into the building muttering, "He always seems so mad."
Thirty minutes later Komamura and Shinji arrived. Shinji being followed by the rest of the Visored, who were just there as a shoulder incase something bad had happened. Or so they said.
Isane walked into the waiting room then and asked for Komamura to follow her. He did this and then stopped when a door to his left opened.
"Sajin," Moria's voice came out of the room.
This caught Shinji's attention.
"Moria what are you doing here . . . what the . . . that was not out when I left home a few hours ago."
"He wasn't out yet when I started my bath either. I would have called but it happened so fast that I didn't have time."
Shinji by this point was walking down the hall. He watched as Komamura entered the room and then he reached the door and looked in.
"Hey bro!" Moria said happily, "Come meet your nephew!"
"I'm an uncle?"
"I suppose so," Moria chuckled and then thought for a moment, "Unless one of us was adopted."
Shinji chuckled and then walked into the room. He noticed the small bundle that Komamura was holding and walked over, carefully peeking into the folded fabric.
He was met by blue eyes and a baby smile. Then the little boy yawned largely and closed his eyes, though the precious smile was still on his lips. His ears, a dark tan, were closed to the world and held back.
"I get the feeling that the SWA will love him," Shinji said.
Komamura chuckled at that comment as did Moria.
Neither had any doubt that as soon as someone got pictures there would be squeeing puddles of goo on the ground from the absolute cuteness of it.
"Hello Lisa," Moria said suddenly as she noticed someone at the door.
"Hey," Lisa said and then came more fully into view, "Sorry. My curiosity got the better of me."
Moria chuckled and then glanced at Komamura, "Shall we get the birth certificate finalized so he can have a proper name?"
Komamura chuckled and then nodded, "We did agree on a name for a boy."
"But somehow we couldn't agree on a name for a girl," Moria said and then became thoughtful again, "Maybe our subconscious minds were trying to tell us something."
"Perhaps," Komamura muttered and then glanced up when Unohana entered the room.
She had a few sheets of paper and placed them on a table that sat next to the window. She then turned to the happy family and said, "You'll have to fill out his name and each of you will have to sign the form."
Komamura nodded and then watched as Moria started filling out her part of the paperwork along with some other parts that he could have done. He said nothing and then when she stopped he glanced at Shinji and then carefully handed his son to his brother-in-law.
Shinji grinned and then turned to Unohana, "Is he allowed out of this room?"
Unohana nodded and Shinji grinned wider.
"What's his name?"
"Kureno," Moria and Komamura answered at the same moment.
"Well then Kureno you and I are going to meet my fellow Visoreds," then he paused and glanced at Lisa who was still in the door. She hadn't seen Kureno yet, "No peeky! All other Visored get to see my nephew at the same moment!"
"You're no fun," Lisa said and followed him down the hallway.
"Ah! Captain Soi Fon! Yoruichi!" Shinji suddenly said, "What are you doing here?"
"Wondering what all the Visored are doing here," Soi Fon said curtly.
"I'm just here to see what all the fuss is about," said the unmistakable voice of Matsumoto.
"And now Shunsui!"
"Here to see what the fuss is about too and Nanao had to follow me," Kyôraku chuckled, "So did Casanova. What are you holding Shinji?"
"My new nephew!"
Ten seconds after that comment there was a seven part female voice, "AWWW!"
Five seconds after that there was a baby crying.
Four seconds after that Kureno was in his mama's arms and back in the room his papa was sitting in. His mama was audibly locking the door and five women were rubbing the backs of their heads. It would have been seven except that Soi Fon and Yoruichi dodged the blows intended for them.
Shinji blinked and glanced back at the door that had just locked and chuckled, "100 years is defiantly enough time to improve flash step."
End Chapter 22