AN: so I decided to upload this chapter already instead of my HKK and OTR first. Why? Cuz I'm kinda stuck on the other ones. Hope you enjoy.

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Byakuya barely kept back a groan when his office door burst open with a loud bang. He had just gotten ready with this enormous workload and was about to head home to see his now 12 weeks pregnant husband, but there was Kurosaki…. Again.

"Byakuya."

"What Kurosaki? I was about to head home. Can't you by some other time? Do you really have to come by here all the time? Aren't you finally together with Hitsugaya-taichou. I thought you were going to stop bothering me once I helped you getting his attention."

He took a sip of his tea and watched as the other man shifted uncomfortably.

"Yeah well. Thank you for that. But that's actually not why I'm here."

"Then why are you here instead of with your new lover?"

"Because YOU forgot to mention that I could pregnant like you nobles can!"

The nobleman stared at the orangehaired teen, face void of any emotion but his head filled with an image he'd rather not have. "Nobles cannot get naturally pregnant Kurosaki. We forcibly put chambers in our bodies."

"Yeah well. Apparantly visored can! Unohana-taichou told me."

Even the teen was too scared of her to call her just Unohana or Retsu. And Byakuya didn't show it –as usually- but this conversation was making him very uneasy and that wasn't just because of the fact that what Ichigo was telling him was quite different from what he had expected to transpire between the two new lovers. Kurosaki the uke? Really? He couldn't decide if he should get nauseous or snort at the thought of Kurosaki being dominated by Hitsugaya, the boy only about half his size.

He snapped out of his thoughts as he heard his name being repeated over and over again, each time a little more desperate.

"What?"

"ARCH!? Since when do you drift off to fucking lalaland!?"

"Just repeat what you've been going on about so I can go home." He took another sip of his tea.

"I told you! I just went by Unohana-taichou because I was feeling sick and she suddenly told me that I'M PREGNANT GODDAMNIT!" The teen yelled the last part loudly, making Byakuya's ever so stoic expression turn into a very shocked and surprised one as he dropped his cup, spilling tea all over his desk."

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Renji's eyes widened, hand just inches away from the office door. He'd come by because he'd decided to pick up Byakuya for their long awaited date today. The man had promised him after they'd gotten into a bit discussion about the fact that he was never home, that he wasn't there to support him while he was carrying THEIR child. Oh yes, those hormones that were playing around in his pregnant body could prove to be quite the bitch.

His hand dropped back to his side as he lowered his gaze. He'd missed the fist part of the conversation but he could really only see one reason as to why Ichigo –who had already been spending quite a lot of time with his husband- would tell Byakuya that he was pregnant. And that reason wasn't one he particularly liked that much.

Ichigo was pregnant with Byakuya's child. The rumours had been true ,those two had been fucking, and he'd trusted the fact that their link would make it impossible for the man to do something like that behind his back.

He leaned against the wall next to the door, doing his best to keep the tears that were threatening to fall down his cheeks at bay. 'He was NOT going to cry' was what he kept telling himself, but he did so anyway, lowering his head onto his knees to hide the tears before just simply collapsing.

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Byakuya sighed deeply as he finally got Ichigo out of his office after telling him about a dozen times that he was not the person he should be discussing this with. Although, Ichigo leaving didn't really last as long as he'd wished as the man stormed back inside almost immediately, a worried look all over his face.

"Byakua! Renji's collapsed outside!"

The nobleman was immediately on his feet and outside of his office, cradling the limp form of his pregnant redheaded lover.

'What happened?' He asked Zabimaru after searching for his presence.

'What happened? You happened!" The baboon answered with a glare sent directly in his soul. 'He came to pick you up and then he suddenly hears Ichigo talking about being pregnant and draws the damn wrong conclusion because of those stupid rumors!'

Byakuya immediately glared at the teen after that before picking his lover up and flash stepping to the fourth division as fast as he possibly could. It was closer than his mansion, thus the better choise.

He stopped blocking out the link, a trick he had learned himself from some books so he could work more easily and thus faster, and he immediately felt his senses being overwhelmed by stress, heartbreak and an immense pain in his abdominal region.

There was no way that he'd missed all these emotions running around in Renji! He only blocked out the link when he was working, but never when he was home, even when he wasn't near Renji he loved feeling his presence while doing the research, his mind unconsciously searching for the readhead's. But how had he missed this!?

He knew Renji had been feeling stressful about things like the rumors but he had assured him more than a few times that they weren't true and that Ichigo was just bothering him for information, and on the fact that he was barely home he'd promised to take Renji out on a date at least once a weak and tune down the research to only 3 times a week.

'That's because, while you found a way to block out the link so you could do your work without being disturbed, he found a way to hide what he was feeling from that link. That as well as the fact that your clan was teaching him, like they thought you, that a noble should have full control over his emotions at all time.'

This pissed Byakuya off enormously. They really shouldn't teach stuff like that to him. No wonder he looks so broken right now!

It stayed silent in his head for a bit as he decided to never block out the link again, even when it helped him in doing his work faster, it wasn't worth losing Renji over, not in a million years. Renji was more important than his work. Something he'd never thought he'd hear himself think.

But suddenly Zabimaru spoke again. 'You can feel it right? That he's hiding himself away in our inner world, that he's hiding from us and that he is pushing us and the child away as well as pushing all of his reiatsu onto himself. He won't even let me approach the area he is in.'

Byakuya nodded sadly. He could feel it alright. The pain Renji was feeling was overwhelming him in such a way that it made him numb and speechless.

They finally arrived at the fourth division, immediately being brought into an emergency room. He laid Renji down onto the examination table and let Unohana do her work as he decided to try and approach Renji in their inner world.

He searched for the man and when he finally found him hidden away in a cave in the middle of the red desert he found that he couldn't enter the cave at all.

"Renji! Renji please listen!"

The redhead glared at him as he saw the nobleman approach. "I can't believe you'D do this to me! I thought you loved me but instead you go and fuck Ichigo, even getting him pregnant! Am I not enough for you!? Is it because I'm a rukongai dog?"

Byakuya flinched at the words and forced his way into the cave, ignoring the feeling of needles and daggers all over his body while his longs were being squeezed.

"Renji. That's not true. Please believe me. I DO love you. Otherwise the link wouldn't have existed in the first place. Please do not make me lose you and our little baby boy.

"What about Ichigo?" The anger in Renji's eyes had subdued for a little bit, but the hurt was still there so clearly.

"He's not pregnant with my child. I never even looked at him that way. He's in love with Hitsugaya-taichou. That's why he kept stalking me, he was asking me for advice as how to approach him, so I helped him out but forgot to mention to him that visored could get pregnant. He's carrying Hitsugaya's child, not mine."

It stayed silent for a bit as Renji seemd to be pondering about that answer until the pressure around them finally started to lessen and he immediately took a now sobbing Renji into his arms, whispering about how sorry he was for not noticing the pain he had been feeling all this time and kissing him on top of his head in a loving gesture.

Renji was changing who he was and he knew it, but at this moment he didn't care. All he cared about was having Renji safe in his arms.

But then suddenly Renji apologized in a barely there, painful whisper.

"Renji. You don't have to apologize to me. You did nothing wrong."

"Yes I did. I'm sorry Byakuya. It's too late now." He mumbled before being lost in sobs again as the pressure around them started building again.

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