Chapter 8

Toshiro Hitsugaya

"Toshiro, it's your turn." Karin said as she rolled over and pulled the covers tightly around her. I huffed before rolling out of bed and going over to the little pink bassinet Instead of getting new beds for the twins we decided to take the two small bassinets back home and used them until the nursery was finished. Since we had only prepared to have one child we have to redo the entire nursery to fit all the new things we received for our surprise son.

"Why are you crying now?" I asked as he lifted the small girl from the bassinet and carried her from the room. I went into the kitchen and started to make a bottle. Toshi didn't sleep through the night but Katsu did; whenever Katsu did wake during the night he wasn't nearly as loud as his sister was, she has a scream that made everyone around her want to break out into tears themselves.

He reached down and lifted Toshi from her bassinet as soon as I had her wrapped in his arms the crying stopped. She smiled up at her father who as struggling to stay awake. Each second it was growing increasingly harder for him to keep his eyes opened. He walked into the living room and set the bottle down on the coffee table.

"Looks like I've made this bottle for no reason." I said as I sat down on the sofa and made himself comfortable. I was tired but I couldn't go back to sleep until Toshi was asleep and it didn't look like she was going to sleep anytime soon.

"It isn't time to play Toshi; you need to go to sleep." I said. The little girl in his arms did nothing but laugh at his plea, she was wide awake a ready to play and if that's what she wanted nothing would stop her. I had no choice but to play along.

Rangiku Matsumoto

"Captain, are you in here?" asked a happy Rangiku as she peaked her head into the office. There weren't many places that her captain could be so that fact that she couldn't find him was really starting to get to her.

"Ugh, were could he be?" Matsumoto said in a defeated tone.

"Who are you looking for?" asked a familiar voice. She turned to see Renji stand behind her with a questioning look on his face.

"I can't find the captain, he was supposed to be here over an hour ago and he hasn't arrived yet." She replied.

"Did you look in the office?" Renji asked.

"Yes he isn't there." she answered.

"Have you checked his house?" Renji asked.

"Ugh, I'm so stupid. How could I forget to look in the most obvious place." Rangiku said as she smacked her forehead. She grabbed Renji hand and proceeded to pull him along with her.

"Where are we going?" Renji asked.

"To the captain's house duh." Rangiku replied.

"And why do I have to come along?" Renji asked.

She didn't answer as she continued in the direction of captain Hitsugaya's residence. When they reached the house Rangiku knocked on the door softly. When she received no answer she started sifting through the plants on either side of the door.

"What are you doing?" Renji asked immediately panicked by Rangiku's actions. He had no problem with accompanying her to her captain's house but breaking and entering was something he didn't want to get in trouble for.

"I'm looking for the spare key." she replied simply. She reached up with both arms and felt on top of the door frame for the key.

"And here it is, the same place as the Kurosaki clinic." She said as she put the key into the lock and opened the door.

"So you were sneaking around in the real world too huh?" Renji asked as they silently stepped through the door and into the house.

"Not sneaking, just getting locked out of a lot of places." she replied as she stepped quietly into the living room. A soft snore was the only thing the two could hear as they tip toed over to the back of the couch.

"Well, look at that. We found him now we need to go before we get caught here-" Renji turned to see Matsumoto fawning at the sight in front of both of them. Her tiny white hair captain was laid out on the couch with his tiny daughter lying belly down on his chest. They were both fast asleep and snoring softly.

"They're so cute." she said quietly as she leaned closer to the sleeping captain and his daughter.

"Yeah they are and if you lean any closer you going to wake the both of them." Renji said as he pulled Rangiku away from the couch by her arm.

"It's too late for that." Rangiku said as she watched Toshi's large eyes flutter open. When Toshi's eyes fell on Rangiku and Renji she laughed. The noise proceeded to wake the captain sleeping underneath her but Rangiku was too occupied with staring at the girl in his arms.

"Matsumoto, what are you doing here?" asked captain Hitsugaya in a calm voice.

"I-I was looking for you captain, you weren't at the office so I figured I would come here and look for you." Matsumoto replied.

"How did you get into my house?" he asked.

"The spare key but that doesn't really matter because we're leaving right now and I'm going down to the office to get all of the paperwork done before you get there." She said as she grabbed Renji by the back of the collar and ran out of the front door being careful not to slam it too hard.

"Who was that?" Karin asked as she walked into the room with Katsu in her arms.

"Matsumoto and Renji Abarai, they stopped by to pay us a visit." He said as he slowly rose from the couch and went into the kitchen behind Karin.

"Well that was nice of them," Karin said. She handed Katsu to Toshiro which immediately causing him to scream at the loss of contact between himself and his mother.

"Yeah I guess you could say that, Karin…" he said.

"Yes," she replied.

"When did we get a spare key?" Toshiro asked as he adjusted himself to accommodate the squirming child in his arm.

"What spare key?" Karin asked. She glanced over at him with a dumbfounded look on her face.

"Matsumoto," Toshiro hissed.