Chapter 6

Karin Kurosaki-Hitsugaya

Pregnancy: Week 32

"Ugh I'm huge!" I said as I looked into the bathroom mirror at myself. It's like I could barely see myself over my stomach. I knew my mind was making it seem a lot worse than it actually was but I couldn't wrap my mind around the fact that I was so big. My body wasn't big but my stomach was. I felt like a walking blimp when I walked around the 10th quad barracks and way the members of the squad look at me is the absolute worse.

"It isn't that bad Karin, you look really good pregnant." Matsumoto said as we made our way down the hallway and back to the office where Toshiro was waiting. I should have headed back towards the house about an hour ago but something in the back of my mind was keeping me around longer than I needed to be.

"Karin I thought you left already?" Toshiro said in shocked as Rangiku and I walked through the door of his office I went directly over to him and wrapped him in a hug.

"You know I have a captain's meeting in a couple of minutes right?" he asked as he pulled away from me far enough to look me in the eye.

"Yeah, we were just about to head home, I just wanted to come back and say good bye before we left." I said taking a step back and turning to Matsumoto. When I did a sharp pain ran all the way down my back and around my stomach.

"You alright?" Toshiro asked stepping closer to place a hand on my back. I nodded my head and took a deep breath as he rubbed small circles in my back in the spot between my shoulder blades.

"I'm fine, it's just the back pain from standing too long." I said to him.

"You should get back home a lay down, you know before it gets too bad." He said in a calm voice. I smiled before I watched him step out of the door quickly heading in the direction of the meeting hall.

"You ready to go Karin?" Rangiku asked as she placed her hand on my back in the same place Toshiro's hand was.

"Yeah, let's go." I replied happily.

Toshiro Hitsugaya

I tried to hold in a sigh, this meeting was one of the most pointless I had ever been to. I didn't want to be here and I was quickly realizing that there was no reason for me to be. The captain was going on and on about something that had nothing to do with any of us. He had us all here to have a private conversation with his vice-captain right in front of us.

Other than the fact that there was nothing for us to talk about the meeting was going on just like the rest of them. We discussed everything of real important near the beginning of the meeting and everything else was just used to space fillers to use up the rest of the time.

"There was something else we needed to discuss but I can't seem to remember what it was." said head captain Yamamoto ask he searched his mind for the forgotten topic we were supposed to be going over before the meeting was over.

Before he could open his mouth to speak again the main door of the meeting hall were thrown open and someone was rushing inside. The look of absolute rage on the captain's face was something I had never seen before. If there was something the head captain didn't like it was to be interrupted while he was talking.

"You better have a good reason for interrupting during such an important meeting vice-captain Matsumoto." He said calmly despite how obvious his anger was. From where I was standing I could almost feel the rage rolling off him and it just had to be my vice-captain to make so angry. She turned her stare away from the head captain and directly over to me.

"There's something wrong with Karin," the terror in her voice was evident. Her wide eyes were full of fear as she clutched the door frame in a desperate attempt to gain some type of comfort.

"Captain there was blood all over, it was everywhere. I don't know what's going on you have to come and check on her," she cried. It was as if I was unable to hear anything else that she said. I stepped from my place in line and raced from the room, I could feel Rangiku and Captain Unohana trailing behind me as I made my way into the house.

"Karin!" I shouted as I frantically searched the house for her.

"I'm in the bathroom!" Karin screamed. I ran into the room and over to the bathroom door.

"Don't come in!" she screamed as soon as I touched the door knob.

"Karin if you're hurt then I need to come in to help you." I said in as calm a voice as I possibly could. With all the panic I could feel around me I was trying to keep myself calm. I knew that if I lost my cool then everything would go spiraling down from there. I was trying my hardest to keep my cool but the blood on the floor by my feet wasn't something that was going to keep me calm.

"Go get Unohana!" she screamed. I could tell by her voice that she was crying. She must have been in some pain if she was crying.

"I'm already here Karin please open the door." Unohana said as she nudged me from in front of the door and took my place there. The door opened only allowing enough room for Unohana to step through. When I walked up behind her to get inside she propyl slammed the door in my face.

"Aw come on!" I screamed.

"This is no place for a man Captain Hitsugaya; please wait in the living room with Matsumoto until I can figure out what is going on." Unohana said in her usual calm yet creepy voice. I stepped away from the door and into the

Rangiku stepped through the door and linked her arm with mine. She pulled me into he living room shutting the door behind her. I really don't see any reason why I shouldn't be able to be in there with Karin. She could have at least told me what was going on before she slammed the door in my face.

"You keep pacing like that and you're going to walk a groove into the floor." She said in an amused tone. She sat calmly in her normal place on the couch watching me walked back and forth. I hadn't really notice that I was doing it but I couldn't stop myself.

"What if something is wrong, something could be wrong with her. What will we do then?" I asked going immediately back to my previous work of walking back and forth in front of the door.

"There isn't anything wrong with them, They're just fine." Matsumoto replied calmly.

"Yeah but how do you know?" I asked. She didn't reply. Instead I was answered by a loud cry from the other side of the door. She was right.

"That's how I know." She replied with a wide smile stretched across your face.

"She's alright." I said happily as I waited for Unohana to open the door. She had been right about the baby being okay but she wasn't right about the sex. From what I was feeling on this side it was in fact a girl on the other side of the door.

"Yeah and so is he." Matsumoto added.

"What are you talking about Matsumoto; the alcohol must be getting to you if you still think it's a boy." I turned to look at her with a knowing glare. Again she didn't reply, she let the baby do it for her. Another cry joined the first, it was a lot lower than the first but it was there. I could hear the both of them as clear as a sunny day. I whipped around quickly to face Unohana as the door to the bedroom opened slowly.

"You can come in now Captain." She said with a kind smile. It was one of the only times I had seen captain Unohana show a genuine joy for something. This smile was unlike the creepy sadistic stare that she always held when looking at any one else. She looked really happy and I had to say that the look she was giving me now was way scarier than the one I usually got.