New Town, New Family

"Where the hell are we?" Renji asked.

"I'm not really sure," Ichigo answered.

"Do you think they can talk?" Corbeau inquired. She was referring to the three kids that had strolled up and hunkered down in front of them to just stare without saying a word.

She, Renji, and Ichigo had been sitting side by side under a big oak tree in the shade to rest. They had just pulled into their new destination and everyone was taking a break before they would begin setting up. The three inquisitive children had wandered onto the site and were now sitting across from them just staring at them. The children were filthy as if they had been rolling in the dirt. The boys were dressed in faded, torn overalls and the little girl had on a dirty gingham dress. Her eyes were brown and her hair might be blond but it was hard to tell from all of the dirt and oil in the tangled stringy mess. The boys had dark hair that looked like it was just growing back out from being completely shaved off. They both had huge blue eyes. The adults were staring back just as hard at the children who they viewed as being very unusual and strange.

Even though Ichigo was not technically a freak, his bright orange hair was definitely eye catching. The tattooed man could capture the attention of young and old without saying a word. Renji could look a little frightening as well. And the woman? Corbeau unfurled her wings, straightening them out so the children could see them. The boy and girl on either side of what she guessed was their older brother, rolled back onto their behinds in surprise with a gasp as they stared wide eyed at her. The older boy had no reaction at all. He appeared to be around fourteen, and he continued to chew on the grass stalk in his mouth looking just like a cow while doing so. His bored, dark blue eyes never left the face of the woman with wings.

"Inbreeders?" Ichigo asked.

"Possibly," Renji replied. "They do look…odd."

"So it would be Brother-Daddy and Sister-Mama which would make these three siblings and cousins all at the same time?" Ichigo ventured. He and Renji visibly cringed at the thought with an audible 'ewww.'

"Shut up, you morons!" Corbeau snapped, looking at the two younger ones who were smiling sweetly at her. She avoided Big Brother's intense scrutiny; he was beginning to scare her. "Don't be mean," she chided the two men on either side of her. "I'm sure they aren't deaf."

"No, we ain't deaf," Big Brother spoke suddenly making the three adults nearly jump out of their skin from being startled. "We ain't stupid neither."

Really? Corbeau bit her lip to hold back a snarky comment. This boy was only a child and she would not say anything insulting.

"You people are weird. You are downright perty, ma'am," Big Brother said to Corbeau.

"Thank you. Are you going to come back to the show later with your parents?" she inquired.

"We don't have any parents. It's just been us for about two months now. They went to the store one night and never came back," the younger brother said.

"What?" Corbeau cried out. She glanced at the men on either side of her.

"Don't even think about it," Renji warned her. "They're people, not puppies. Don Kanonji would kill us if we brought stray anything home! Especially more people."

"They're just kids. Please, honey," she begged.

Renji glared at her. When he had thoughts of having a family, he never dreamed it would start this way. He never even had nightmares that it would start this way. He had wanted to do it the old fashioned way: having lots of mind blowing sex with the woman with wings and getting her pregnant. That was the preferred method. Not this. They haven't even had sex yet. He pouted at that thought. He had been hoping tonight would be the night if they were not completely exhausted from setting up. That possibility was crashing and burning right before his very eyes.

"No! Absolutely not!" he shouted with resolve, standing up so he could avoid looking into her pleading eyes. "I don't want Kanonji crawling my ass about this. No."

Hours later they were sitting in the food service tent at a picnic table with the ravenous children sitting across from them. The three people were staring at them again as the kids practically inhaled their food. How long had it been since these children had eaten last?

"Oh, Corbeau! Wherever did you find these! They're adorable!" Rangiku commented, sitting down beside the oldest sibling of the trio who had identified himself as Hanatoro.

"They're people, not puppies," Corbeau said, receiving a nudge in the ribs from Renji's elbow. She smiled as Hanatoro stared wide eyed at the woman sitting next to him. The boy can have a reaction to something. It just takes the right, uh, stimulus to elicit a reaction. His big indigo blue eyes were glued to her humungous décolletage which was pressed against his body and pushing him into his sister, Hiyori. The youngest, Rin, snorted and blushed as he looked away from the beautiful and well-endowed woman.

Corbeau had found clean clothes for the children by asking around and getting them from some of the performers and workmen. After much bitching and fussing from her red haired boyfriend, they had taken a shower in his RV to get cleaned up. She had talked to Don Kanonji about the children which angered Renji all the more because the man was allowing them to stay. He should have known the man would show favoritism to the woman who would probably be his new star attraction. Several people had offered to keep the children, and she would probably have to take them up on that offer to soothe things over with the aggravated human artwork at her side. They were children and they needed someone. She could not have lived with herself if she had just left them there to continue to fend and scavenge for themselves like little animals.

"Can I have one of them?" Rangiku asked, looking down at Hanatoro who had a dark red coloring creeping up his neck to his face.

"No. They're a set. You have to take them all," Renji snapped, receiving a sharp elbow in the ribs from his winged girlfriend. "Ouch! You're mean! I didn't hurt you."

"How old are you again?" she snapped, glaring at him. This offer, however, she could not accept. She was afraid Rangiku was going to eat the boy alive if she did not scare him to death first. "No. I don't think that would be a good idea. I think Kisuke and Yoruichi are going to take them for tonight."

Corbeau wasn't exactly lying; the couple had offered to let the children stay with them in their huge motor home. She just had not committed to anything yet. Her eyes caught sight of the couple on the other side of the tent, and she decided now was the time to commit to save Hanatoro from the cougar eyeing him hungrily.

"Kisuke! Yoruichi!" she called, running over to them.

"Hi, sweetie! What's up?" Yoruichi inquired when she sat down at the table with them.

"Can the kids stay with you tonight? Rangiku wants to stake a claim on Hanatoro, and I'm afraid he would become a sex slave," she explained.

"Oh, come on, Corbeau," Kisuke spoke up with a lecherous grin on his face. "He's a fourteen year old boy. Let him enjoy himself. Rangiku won't hurt him. Much."

"Pervert!" both women yelled, slapping him across the back of the head.

"Dammit!" he yelled, rubbing the back of his head while he was getting up to leave. "It's like having two wives now. As if one wasn't bad enough."

"What did you say?" his wife growled.

"I love you, dear!" he exclaimed without turning back as he walked away.

"You better!" she hollered back at him. The shape shifter turned her attention to Corbeau. "Sure. We'll be happy to take them. I'm afraid we'll never be able to have our own children so it would be nice to have a family. Even a temporary one."

"Thank you. I'll let them know."

"Tomorrow is your first performance," Renji said as he held her in bed that night. "Are you nervous?"

They were both physically tired but their minds were fully awake and racing with random thoughts so neither could sleep.

"Terribly. I can't imagine how nervous I will be when it's time to go out on the stage. Renji?" She could see his face perfectly in the moonlight streaming through the open window above the bed. Her fingers traced the contours of his severe yet handsome facial features.

"What is it, baby?" he inquired, opening his eyes to look at her.

"Do you want me? I mean in the relationship sense not the physical sense," she stated nervously feeling like a harebrained idiot. How hard is it to ask 'am I really your girlfriend?' Hinting at sex was so much less embarrassing.

"Yes," he answered bluntly, pulling her closer as he looked into her eyes. "I want you in all ways, every day, for now and forever."

Corbeau gaped at him. The shockingly romantic answer had taken her by surprise. Just when she thought she had this man figured out. And they say women are confusing. She closed her eyes when his lips touched hers. So far all she had received was brief innocent kisses that warmed her heart and made her body tingle. When his hand slid down her back to cup her behind, she could already tell this was not going to be one of those kisses. She sighed as his mouth moved across hers, teasing her lips with a gentle kiss until he suddenly pressed his mouth against hers while sliding his tongue through her lips. Oh, dear god. Her fingers dug into his shoulders as he moved against her to let her know how much he wanted her.

"Are you ready for this?" Renji asked, untying the bow behind her neck that held up her thin cotton nightgown.

"Yes," she whispered, biting her lower lip with anticipation of what he would do next. She closed her eyes when he bent to kiss her again on the lips before he slowly trailed kisses down her neck. Her brain was screaming at her that her body wanted him to get on with it and take her already. She called his name pleadingly as his lips neared her breast. How could he be taking this much time? She was sure he wanted it even more then she did, and she felt like a raging inferno of want and need at this time. Her breath was coming in shallow gasps by the time he finished working his way around her breast, pressing kisses to the firm roundness in concentric circles until he reached the hard, painfully throbbing nipple that needed his touch.

"Oh, Renji!" she cried out when he finally covered the oversensitive flesh with his mouth and tongue. That alone almost made her go off into a full blown climax. Her body did shiver and writhe underneath his hot, wet mouth as he licked, sucked, and nibbled the very aroused nipple. She was panting by the time he decided to make his way to the other one. Her hands moved over his chest, savoring the feel of his silky smooth skin and the taut muscles working underneath. Her fingers roamed lower, drawing a moan from his throat as they traced and studied every hard ripple on his abdomen. A smile curled her lips when her fingers brushed over the soft fabric of his silk boxer shorts. This man was a paradox all unto himself.

"Raven," he whispered when her fingers pressed against his pelvis and slipped under the elastic waist band. He squeezed her arms gently as he held onto her while her fingers wrapped around his pulsing hardness. "Oh, god, Corbeau," he gasped, looking at her face in the silvery moonlight. "I need you."

Corbeau pushed him over on his back. She kissed his lips, catching his eyes for a meaningful gaze before she straddled his hips to take him inside of her. Her eyes held his until the pleasure was too much, and he closed them as he released a loud sigh of gratification. She started moving up and down greedily watching every expression that flitted across his face. From the soft dreamy look of satisfying bliss to the pinched look of pain as he tried to hold back from releasing inside of her, she watched it all and it aroused her even more. Her body responded to him magnificently, anticipating and acting accordingly to his every move. When his hips thrust up at her, she was coming down to grind against him with a delicious friction at the end that sent a burst of pleasure through both of them.

"Oh, Renji, you're even more fantastic than I thought you would be," she murmured, moving faster on top of him as he thrust into her harder while holding her down on him.

"You're the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. You really do look like an angel right now," he said, staring at her in awe in the bright white moonlight that made her wings and her pale face shine with an other worldly light.

"Well, we're both about to get a whole lot closer to heaven. Oh, god," she gasped, feeling the release of the orgasm inside of her. She rammed herself down on him hard to amplify the sensations coursing through her body which caused him to come undone and explode into an orgasm of his own.

"Oh, Corbeau," he whispered, pulling her down on top of him. He dotted her face with small, sweet kisses before laying a forceful, passionate kiss on her lips. "I just made love to an angel and man, was it great."

Corbeau laughed despite herself. Leave it to him to punctuate an emotional, romantic moment with something silly. She believed she would be disappointed if he had not done so. "Renji, is it too early to say I love you?" she inquired, looking at him as he held her close.

"It's about time you said it," he joked, nuzzling her neck and kissing her. "I've wanted to say it since I first met you."