17 Ways of Erase and Rewind
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Warning: SPOILER ALERT! This story ignores manga 423: Farewall swords, especially the part of Gin dying you'll see why. A/N in the bottom, italics are for thoughts, and some cursing but nothing major. Just so you know this chapter is a bunch of fliclets, but all with the same topic.
Ahh BE sure to stop by the A/N I talk about the lemon that I have pending
Chapter 16: First Timers
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Your little hand's wrapped around my finger
And it's so quiet in the world tonight
Your little eyelids flutter cause you're dreaming
So I tuck you in, turn on your favorite night light
To you everything's funny, you got nothing to regret
I'd give all I have, honey
If you could stay like that
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1 – The first time Hiyori thought about the possibility of being pregnant she freaked out and started wondering what she was going to do and how she was going to handle this situation. So naturally, Hiyori went to the person she knew would help her without asking too many question. It was 3:30 in the afternoon when a smirking Urahara Kisuke opened the door and in the second he looked into the Vizard face he changed his mouth into a tense gesture. The girl entered and chatted with him expressing her overgrowing concerned, but the shop owner only received her feeling with a tender smile "Don't worry Hiyori-san. Many women in Soul Society reproduce and nothing bad happens." But the blond frowned "Not many women have a hollow inside their heads." He sighed and made her follow him opening, out of nowhere, a Senkai door "We need to found out for sure if we have anything to be worry or not." And both ex-Shinigamis went into the tunnel with only one person in mind: Unohana Retsu.
2 – The first time Shinji considered that Hiyori could be cheating on him he almost hit his head against a telephone pole. He had been following her the entire day and still couldn't figure out what was happening. The girl had been acting strange for a couple of days. She had been more quite than normal, and now she had disappeared into the streets without uttering a single word to anyone. But actually cheating? No, it was simple ridiculous. Hiyori wouldn't be capable of such a thing, so what was his surprise when she saw the way she was saying goodbye to Urahara, hugging him like it there was no tomorrow, that, without counting the fact that she had expended 3 hours inside the shop. Shinji felt the rage of jealousy grabbing the mouth of his stomach and decided to leave. He would ask for an explanation in the second she crossed the door of the warehouse.
3 - The first time Hiyori confessed she was pregnant; she thought she would kill the idiot she had married. It wasn't that she blamed him for being pregnant, no; it was more the tone he was using to inquirer where she had been the entire afternoon. So Hiyori decided to play difficult and ignore him, but when he grabbed her arm and looked at her with a weird emotion on his face and asked what was happening she couldn't shut up "I went to see Unohana Taichou," and Shinji's anger change to fear in one second, "and I'm pregnant." She blurted out like it was nothing. The man just stood there for a minute without saying or doing anything. Hiyori staring at him had begun panicking for the second time on the day. She hadn't considered Shinji may not be ready for becoming a parent, but two strong arms around her made her smile. "What didn't you tell me Hiyori? I would have gone with you." She grinned in her chest "I didn't wanna get you worried, idiot." He took her face in one hand and planted a loving kiss; he couldn't believe that the crazy midget was going to make him a father. He wasn't happy, he was in cloud 9.
4 -The first time Shinji knew he wanted Hiyori to have a daughter instead of a son, was when he was going grocery shopping alone and saw a little pink dress in a shop that caught his attention. He didn't have another choice more than to buy the thing even if he would have to wait at least 2 or 3 years to give it to the baby, and he had the same amount of time to persuade the mother to-be to dress the future daughter in the color she hated she most.
5 -The first time Hiyori realized pregnancy hormones were not a myth, was when Shinji called her an idiot as a reply to one of her insults, and the now 5 months pregnant woman started to cry uncontrollably in the middle of the living room, gaining the sympathy of the rest of the Vizards. Shinji worried sick, and ignoring the glares, wrapped his arms around her and started to apologize left and right for being the cause of the tears, but the mother to-be hit him so hard that he was left unconscious. "Imbecile! I'm not crying-crying is just the crappy pregnancy hormones."
6 - The first time Shinji became aware that pregnancy had other symptoms beyond dizziness and morning sickness was when he was staring at Hiyori while she tried a new blouse. "Your breasts are bigger." He had stated with a lecherous smirk. "So? What is it to you?" She replied rudely while she tried to stacking them into her normal bra. "Baka, you need to get new clothes including underwear." And he approached her and to his surprise she gave him a lustful smile too. He will take advantage of the other symptoms he loved from pregnancy, as often as he could.
7 -The first time Hiyori realized she hated being pregnant and the person who got her like that, was when she was in labor. She had had a very normal time for the past 9 months, the only thing she missed was training, but when a horrible pain started making her breath cut off and her water broke she realized being pregnant sucked and Shinji was to blame for it. Everything was forgotten when the nurse gave her a little girl to hold, and a pair of honey eyes stared at her.
8 -The first time Shinji mentioned he wanted to name their baby Amy, Hiyori hit him with a baby bottle. The blonde woman yelled something like "A western horrible name for our only daughter… you must be crazy if you think I'm going to let that happen Baldy." He kept quiet, but knew he could convince the new mother especially after when he was holding the little baby he tried calling her Amy and the baby smiled.
9 - The first time Hiyori felt overprotection over her daughter was the time when she, practically forced by Shinji, took the baby to Soul Society, so some of the Captains could meet her, and to her bad luck Kurotsuchi Mayuri was lurking around there. It only took the weird Taichou a couple of seconds to call her daughter a lovely boy, and Hiyori proceeded to try to skin him alive, but Urahara grabbed the collar of her shirt, like he had done the first time when they had met him in the Maggot's nest and she had been called the same thing. The grey eyed man muttered something like "Hiyori-san you shouldn't fall to such obvious provocations, you're a parent now." So she changed victims and kicked the life out of Urahara. It felt just as good.
10 - The first time Shinji noticed Hiyori was a complete mom was coincidentally the first time he had expended a whole day alone with Amy. The day had been a complete disaster. The baby hadn't stopped crying and he had tried everything to make her stop: food, diaper changing, TV, funny faces, everything! And nothing had worked. But when Hiyori arrived before dinner and rocked the girl in her arms singing a lullaby, he understood. What the little baby girl wanted was her mommy.
11 - The first time Hiyori was amazed by the power of her words was when Amy said her first word. It was a hot summer day and she had been bickering with Shinji about the new rules that they had to enforce due to the fact that they had a small child with them now. And when the tall man turned to play with his daughter his usual game of 'call me Daddy' the baby had uttered a single word to refer to Hirako Shinji as "Baldy" and a joyful smile was on her lips. "You see! I told you that you needed to watch your mouth around her Hiyori. At this age her mind is like a sponge." Shinji lectured his wife in an annoyed tone. "Baldy!" The blonde baby repeated and giggled. Hiyori picked her daughter from her crib. "Shut up Bald-…. Shinji. Be quiet Shinji." She rephrased seriously, but in her mind she was laughing her head off.
12 - The first time Shinji had a horrible night like the ones he used to have because of his hollow, was the night Amy got sick. The girl was feverish, had a runny nose and had a horrible cough, so naturally he called every doctor he could find in the yellow pages. Hiyori was also worried, but told him that the girl had probably caught a cold for getting wet in the rain yesterday, but with a concerned look he scolded his wife for not been a good mother. After 3 hours and 5 house calls from 5 different doctors, Hiyori mocked him audibly when the 5th diagnosis had been 'Common cold'. "Satisfied? Or do you wanna call Orihime so she can reject a simple cold from your daughter?"
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Oh, darling don't you ever grow up
Don't you ever grow up
Just stay this little
It can stay this simple
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13 -The first time Hiyori noticed she had a tiny double but with Shinji's smooth dark blonde hair, was also the first time she tied Amy's stubby pigtails with two red ribbons. The 2 year old was so happy she went to every person in the warehouse to show them her new look and demanded that someone should take a picture of her.
14 – The first time Shinji didn't care about cross-dressing was when Amy invited him to play Princesses in her room, shouting she needed one more princess and her mom was out of the house running an errand. "Your mom wouldn't agree to play a princess even if she was in the house." He muttered to himself as he entered the green room that belonged to his daughter and his eyes were about to come out of his sockets while he contemplated the yellow dress the tiny girl had given him to wear. He did it and sat next to the dolls to have fake tea like a man, and even when he thought that Hiyori would get a big laugh out of it, the sweet and understanding expression of Hiyori that was staring at the scene from the doorframe made him keep playing as Rapunzel for a couple of more hours.
15 – The first time Hiyori gave in to a tantrum it had been for a simple lollypop. She really had thought that being so used to deal with Mashiro's behavior, Amy's outburst wouldn't be a real problem, but her husband had warned her that Amy was smart and a fit thrown by a small child was different than one throw by a grown woman. So when Amy asked for a lollypop after she had eaten cotton candy and a caramel apple in the carnival that came every year to Karakura, Hiyori had said no because she knew that Amy would never go to bed high on sugar. The mini-Hiyori scowled just like her mother and made her bottom lip quiver, asking many, many times to get her candy, but the parent said no and threatened her by taking her dolls for the day if she didn't listen. Amy without a single tear looked for a place where the floor wasn't as dirty as the normal surface, lay down and started to 'cry' asking for a lollypop and stated that her mother was the worst mother of the world for not buying her one. The humans surrounding Hiyori started to throw dirty looks and whispered about the awful mother. After a couple of minutes, both blonde girls met Shinji at the carrousel and he gave a glance to Hiyori eyeing the lollypop in Amy's mouth. "I thought you didn't give in to tantrums." Hiyori hit Shinji's arm hard in response.
16 -The first time Shinji felt as scared as the time when Hiyori got hurt fighting Aizen, or even more, was when a simple Hollow wanted to attack a 5 years old blonde girl when she was playing in the park. Damn Amy's big spiritual pressure and the inefficiency of the local Shinigami he thought cutting through the middle of the Hollow with Sakanade.
17 -The first time Hiyori realized her child was going to be a warrior like her and Shinji was the first day of preschool. In the afternoon, when she arrived to pick the girl up the principal of the school took the mother to his office to discuss Amy's behavior. The blonde girl had punched a boy who had stolen a crayon from another girl. Hiyori smiled proudly, decided to scream at the principal that nothing was wrong with her daughter, stormed out and took the little girl to buy ice cream as a reward. The next day Shinji started to look for a different preschool, and determined he would manage all the matters that concerned Amy's education in the real world.
18 - The first time Shinji had to grasp the concept of what the tooth fairy was, he couldn't really understand. Why in the world a fairy would take teeth and give money in return? It just didn't make any sense. Hiyori completely annoyed by Shinji's interest hit him in the head. "It's not Hogyoku science-"And she turned to her side to check if Amy was there. "-idiot, Baldy!" He narrowed his eyes and returned to talking to Mashiro. "Okay can you explain it again, what I am supposed to do in this?" Hiyori hit her forehead with her own palm, for now on she would be in charge of Tooth Fairy and Santa business; Shinji was just useless on it.
19 - The first time Hiyori helped Amy in a science project it was pretty clear that the 10 year old girl didn't do the project by herself, and it was even clearer for the people who know them that her godfather, a crazy mad scientist that expended his immortal second life inventing stuff for the Death Gods, had also helped. Mini-Hiyori had crossed the door of the warehouse with a huge smile and a perfect brown volcano that could spell in fake lava the name of the person who was in front of it by feeling the spiritual pressure. "Didn't I tell you to tone it down, Hiyori?" Shinji asked exasperated. "I DID! Originally we had planned to be a real size volcano." Thanks goodness he knew his wife and he had gone to the store in the morning to buy Play Doh and baking soda.
20 – The first time Shinji trained Amy he almost cried when everything was over. It had been a decision that the whole family had made, not because they wanted the girl to fight for the sake of fighting, but for the need to learn to defend herself from simple things like normal Hollows. He and Hiyori got to the conclusion that it needed to be Shinji who would teach her the basics and Hiyori would be the one who would take the more advanced training. But, it had been hard on the ex-Captain. He had to explain a lot that wasn't very explainable, even with her living in their world her entire life, and when the actual training began it had been rougher on a girl that had never hit anything resembled to an enemy. So after a couple of hours Shinji put an end to the training and helped her up muttering, "Good job kiddo." Bruised and battered Amy smiled those smiles that made her resemble Hiyori so much to thank her father and left in the direction of Hachi, so she could get healed. Shinji sat on a rock and hid his eyes with his yellow bangs. "Baldy…are you okay?" His wife asked him sitting on the same rock next to him. "If you want, I can take the first part of the training and you can take the advance." She said looking at his turmoil. "Neh, I'll be fine." And he bent to kiss Hiyori. "Thank you for reminding me why I chose you." She chuckled. "The funny part is that you think YOU choose me, stinking Baldy."
21 - The first time Hiyori admitted to herself that she had acted on maternal instinct was the first time she saw her daughter cry over a boy. Obviously at 11 years old the love they speak off is nothing more than a crush, yet it still injures the inexperienced heart. It was almost comically ironic how Amy had escaped to the rooftop to cry over the 24 hours boyfriend that had left her for a friend that in the words of the boy "wasn't as short." The scene reminded Hiyori of her crying in the same corner for a boy, well a man, well an Idiot that had flirted with a huge breasted woman in the coffee shop while she, a petit tiny girl, couldn't steal, not even, a glance from Shinji, or so she thought. The Vizard sat next to the crying girl. "Men are all idiots, they can't appreciate what is right in front of their noses," Hiyori repeated the words Lisa had said when she had caught her in the same position she had caught Amy. The small child turned her still full-with-tears-eyes towards her mother. "Even Dad?" Hiyori chuckled and pulled the girl into her lap to hug her. "'Specially your father."
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Take pictures in your mind of your childhood room
Memorize what it sounded like when your dad get's home
Remember the footsteps, remember the words said
And all your favorite songs
I just realized everything I had is someday gonna be gone
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22 -The first time Shinji liked, really liked his Vizard mask was when Amy answered a question from Mashiro: "Which mask is your favorite?" The green haired woman asked the 12 year old girl expecting to hear that it was hers. The tiny blonde made a twirl, giggled and answered in blunt honesty: "My dad's" and Shinji beamed in pride, showing a toothy grin in Hiyori's direction, where his wife had painted a scowl over her face at the reply of her daughter, but the expressions changed in the moment the girl gave the reason of her preference. "It's the funniest looking." she pointed out innocently. Shinji fell out of his imaginary pedestal and Hiyori laughed her head off commenting, "That is my daughter!"
23 – The first time Hiyori had to admit that some of her 'calm' nature had been inherited by Amy was the time when Love confused the two blondes. The teenager had asked her parents to let her go to a birthday party on a cruise, taking the decision on a united front both said no. "It is too soon for my small daughter to go to that type of parties." Shinji had emphasized. Needless to say Amy had yelled about how she was being tortured by selfish parents that loved to keep her locked up like she was a hollow, leaving the room with heavy steps and banging the door of her room. "What's up with Hiyori's bad mood?" Love asked Shinji arriving to the kitchen, but the ex-Shinigami raised her hand. "I'm here idiot! That was Amy." The man had to do a double check and confirm with the other man. "Oh Sorry. My mistake."
24 – The first time Shinji bought a feminine hygiene product he was so embarrassed that he nearly fainted. Hirako Shinji wasn't a person that blushed easily, in fact he had been the reason of many red color tints on Hiyori's cheeks, his lewd nature went along perfectly with his last name. However, the day his daughter had her first period and there wasn't one female Vizard in the entire warehouse he was asked to go to the store and buy a tampon. How could he refuse the honey-eyed girl that sounded even more ashamed than him? He simply couldn't. So, he man up and went to the closest pharmacy aiming directly to 'that' aisle, but to his surprise his shopping wouldn't be as straight forward as he had planned because there were like 50 different types of products, and different brands. So taking a deep breath he pushed to his shopping cart 18 different things including for regular flow, for the night, everyday use, and scented. When he got to the he warehouse, he was carrying 5 plastic bags and was completely flushed, but to his surprise his aid hadn't been needed because Hiyori, Mashiro and Lisa were already in Amy's room having a 'talk'. At his expression, Hiyori smirked, Lisa gave an uncharacteristic giggle and Mashiro approached him going through the bags "GOODY-good! Shinji you just save us from going pad/tampon shopping for an entire year! Yay!" The man emitted a loud growl.
25 – The first time Hiyori received attitude from Amy, she was speechless. Urahara, Rose, Nanao and even Shinji himself, had voiced numerous time how lucky Hiyori was to have a daughter that was so well behaved and mature for her age. She was polite, smart, kind natured, sweet and patient. Therefore when the incident about the cleavage happened everyone was surprised, but simply blamed it on her teenager years. It was the 150th anniversary of Urahara's Shop, so the owner had planned a big party, and naturally the Hirako family, along with all the Vizards, was invited. Everyone was ready except for Amy, so Hiyori yelled at her from the ground floor of the warehouse, and the girl with an annoyed expression materialized in a second, beside her scowling brow the 15 year-old girl was wearing a V neck black blouse that didn't leave anything to the imagination. Hiyori frowned and continued to yell at her for her attire, but the girl gave her mother a grin and walked towards the door in her wobbling high heels. "You're only jealous." She assured in a mocking tone and Hiyori opened her mouth and eyes in shock. Even before Amy reached the door frame a tall man shunpoed before her. "I believe your mother told you to change." Shinji intervened in his serious tone; Amy complied with a furious expression.
26 – The first time Shinji realized in an objective way that Amy was a talented warrior, was when she learned the name of her zanpakutou. Kisuke had told him that fighting against Amy felt like fighting Shinji and Hiyori combined, it was the elegance of his Zanjutso and Hiyori's versatility in Hakuda. So, when she learned that her sword name was Kokoro no jōkā (Joker of Minds) and the shikai activation was Naka ni hairu (go inside), making her arm an illusion-type zanpakutou he couldn't believe the great potential his own daughter had, probably if she had been born in Soul Society and she had been in the academy since she was a child, she would have been a Captain by now.
27 -The first time Hiyori said she didn't want anything to do with her daughter again, was also the first time the 16 years-old honey eyed girl voiced she wanted to go to the Shinigami Academy. Hiyori yelled like never before and left the room towards the direction of the rooftop while Shinji hugged Amy and said, "Don't worry I'll make her understand."
28 -The first time Shinji wanted to borrow Ichimaru's Shinsō to cut somebody to pieces as fast as he could was also the day his daughter got her first kiss. Shinji thought it would be a good idea to go to Soul Society to make a surprise visit to the mini-Hiyori, and he dropped unannounced to her barracks in the 10th squad. When he opened the door, actually he was the one surprised to see a boy with orange blonde hair and pale blue eyes with his mouth to his daughter's. The boy had to thank every god he knew for his luck because his mother was with Shinji leading him into the headquarters or the boy would have been dead meat. "Oh my goodness look at we have here." Ichimaru Rangiku replied amused.
29 -The first time Hiyori grasped she had become 'The good parent', was the time when Ichimaru Yaten and Hirako Amy asked for her help to convince Shinji to acknowledge their relationship and to stop the silent treatment towards the girl. Hiyori agreed to help the two young Shinigami out of revenge for Shinji taking Amy's side when she decided to live in Seretei. So the blonde female Vizard went to their training ground where Shinji was looking at Rose and Lisa's training and simply kicked his ass. "Realize your daughter is not a child and speak to her again!" She said as her sandal crashed with his face. "Rangiku's kid is not that bad, she could have done worse. Imagine if it was Saraki Kenpachi's or Kyoraku Shunsui's spawn." Shinji had to agree with his wife. She was definitely making a good point.
30 – The first time Shinji had to sit down to a family dinner with her daughter's boyfriend, he thought he would kill the kid and cause a second Winter War with Amy and Rangiku playing the parts of Aizen and Gin respectively. He was quiet and only spoke when he was directly addressed by Amy or Hiyori. The last one, annoyed beyond reason by his behavior gave the kids a flunky excuse and pulled Shinji by his ear to the kitchen. "I thought we had agreed that you wouldn't behave stupidly Shinji." and he replied playing with hair and a soft mumble of affirmation. "Be your normal self Baldy or I'll kick you until you do!" and both returned at the table with the dessert. Yaten in a great effort and bravery tried to establish a conversation with Shinji. "A-ano Hirako-san my mom tells me you were the Captain of the 5th Squad when my father started in the Gotei 13th", and Shinji nodded sending the kid a deathly glare for having the audacity to talk to him. Hiyori kicked him under the table and gestured a threat, but the teen went on ignoring the silent bickering. "Do you have any embarrassing stories?" he blurted out. Maybe the kid isn't as bad as I thought, "Actually Yaten-kun, I do have plenty." And his usual grin was on his face.
31 – The first time Hiyori and Shinji realized they had a daughter together and that girl had been raised properly it was the day she became Hitsugaya Toshiro's Fukutaichou. It wasn't the million of congratulations other Shinigamis gave to them nor the rank by itself, it was more like the certain look the girl had, it was something that could only described as real happiness. Amy seeing her parents from far away ran towards them and hugged them muttering a simple "Thank you." Shinji smiled and Hiyori gave a little growl.
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I won't let nobody hurt you
Won't let no one break your heart
And even you want to
Please, try to never grow up
Oh, whoa
Never grow up
Just never grow up
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A/N: The first time I thought about making this chapter… (hahaha) Seriously I never expected this chapter to turn out like this. When I planned to make a fictional Shi/yori baby I never imagined we would have ficlets of her life nor Amy to be a girl named Amy, but my muse is a rebellious spirit. Actually I thought I was in BIG trouble, but that little girl worked out nicely.
I couldn't avoid shipping Amy with Rangiku and Gin's son, Yaten. After all the background we have between Gin/Hiyori and Gin/Shinji, I had to make it difficult for the next generation they don't have an Aizen after all. And for those who are curious I didn't kill Rangiku! She is an instructor in the Academy now (bc first I was saying she retired and a friend remind me that 'that´ is not allowed with the Shinigamis)
BTW amazing song courtesy of Taylor Swift 'Never grow up'.
About the lemon: DUE to internet problems that escape my control I was force to close the poll 4 hours later than I was supposed to, and at this time the results were the following: 12 people said yes to the lemon, 10 read it either way, 9 no to the lemon, 6 wouldn't read it at all, 1 if it is smut and 1 doesn't like smut. So I'll be posting the story next week probably, NOT in here (it's NOT a 17wE&R chapter), but as a different story. I do NOT take any negative review about it, sorry, If you don't like the idea of the lemon, don't read it.
I apologize for my rudeness, but ppl have been rude to me too.
Anyway, only one more chapter to go here, I'm kinda sad to finish, but I bet you guys want to read the ending as much as I want to write it. I DO take suggestions of what HAS TO happen in the end.
Luv
Kate