A/N
*edges quietly into the room* . .
...Okay...I'm so sorry...I know...yes I'm horrible, I know, what's that you say? Oh, drown in a pit of my own filth? Yes of course.
But seriously, I feel...so bad, I didn't mean to update this late, it's been SUCH a long time D; I'm sorry babies! *cuddles*
I'm sad to say it's simply because I was lazy ;(
Ichigo awoke to the sight of the twins draped over Grimmjow, Kei lying over the bluenette's neck and Hikaru lying cuddled into the man's chest. All three where purring softly, Grimmjow slightly snoring because of the weight on his throat. The older man didn't seem to be bothered at all with the positions and even had his hand resting tenderly over Hikaru's back.
Ichigo smiled at the adorable site and wished in that moment he had a camera to capture it. Looking to the clock on the wall he saw that he had sleep close to 6 hours, 'not too bad' Ichigo thought, he would catch up on more sleep later. Suddenly Ichigo heard a scuffling at the door and immediately tensed, but relaxed quickly after hearing a soft curse, Urahara was back with the supplies. The blonde man walked through the door with his arms entirely full of baby merchandise.
Urahara saw the sleeping father and remained quiet, tracking over to the empty corner beside the cupboard. By the looks of it the man had bought nappies and all the changing equipment needed, bottles, dummies, a few items of clothing for the cubs, including a sturdy jacket for each, along with two little beanies and a set of woolly shoes to keep them warm.
The moment the ex-captain finished setting the items down, Tessai walked through the door holding a massive flat box under one arm, filled with what could only have been a crib with a dozen blankets and pillows under his other arm. Dumping the pillows and blankets next to Grimmjow, the large man set about assembling the crib as quietly as he could.
"So, I see you four have settled in well, it's nice to finally see Grimmjow not smashing and slashing" Urahara chuckled behind his fan. Ichigo found it rather amusing that Grimmjow's purring was being witnessed by someone other than himself. Grimmjow had tensed slightly when Ichigo had, but relaxed just as fast, being unsettled the blue haired man rolled over onto his stomach, but not before picking Hikaru up and chucking him softly onto his shoulder blades. Kei just seemed happy to be squished slightly into the pillow next to his daddy's face.
Urahara and Ichigo watched silently as Hikaru began to wiggle and grumble, disturbed at being moved from his warm spot on Daddy's tummy. The youngest bub started to kick and look around, first looking at up at his father's face and then proceeding to scan the room. Hikaru's brilliant azure eyes landed on Ichigo, lighting his face up into a pudgy toothless little grin. Smiling back Ichigo leaned forward and scooped the cub up, cuddling him to his chest, asking Urahara for one of the blankets from the pile near Grimmjow. After receiving the light blanket, Ichigo threw it over his shoulder and discreetly began feeding Hikaru.
"So, what are you going to do Ichigo?" Urahara asked, smiling towards the carrot top expectantly.
"…I have no idea Urahara…you know I just, after everything that's happened all I care about now is making sure my boys stay safe" Ichigo said quietly.
"The real question is, what do you thinkis going to happen?" the carrot top said calmly. Urahara stayed silent for a few minutes, watching Kei kick Grimmjow's neck in his sleep. The aura in the room hung tense around the pair, with quite tinkering coming from Tessai in the corner.
"I don't believe the soul society is plotting against you, although very plausible, but they stand to gain nothing with you remaining in Hueco Mundo, in fact it posses more of a threat then sending in a rescue mission. This leads me to think they wanted to see what would happen to you, which is odd because it clearly means someone was leaking or manipulating information" Urahara said as he scratched the stubble on his chin.
Ichigo processed this, mulling over the new information and considering his options. The orangette didn't have any idea what the soul society was planning to do. If they had waited to see what happened to him, it clearly meant they would benefit in some way. Ichigo rubbed his temple with his free hand, not liking how complicated everything was.
He was tired and had no idea what was going on, all he knew was he wanted to see his family, and he wanted his father's help and opinion on the situation. Ichigo groan out in exasperation, smacking his face softly to focus himself.
"Urahara could you get my family here? I need to ask dad about all this stuff" Ichigo asked softly looking quietly at Grimmjow and his eldest son. There was a slight silence before the hatted man nodded and stood to leave, Tessai following after him as the crib had been finished.
Hikaru had finished feeding so the young mother placed the bub on the pillow next to his brother, lying down next to them. Breathing in the new scent of his cubs Ichigo cast all thoughts in his mind out, resigning to getting more rest until Urahara returned with his father.
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Ichigo had just stepped onto the landing of Urahara's tea room when he was slammed to the floor violently. "ICHIIGOOOOOOOO! My darling son! Smart and handsome! I finally got a one up on you!" Isshin Kurosaki hollered continuing to blabber about how his sweet little boy had gone soft and needed an extra dose of sneak attacks. "Dad, get off!" Ichigo grunts as he pushes his sobbing father off onto the ground next to him.
Ichigo stood up tall, breathing in a sigh of exasperation, his father was such a handful sometimes. "Dad, I need to talk to you about something, something important" Ichigo spoke out calmly and with an heir of authority. This made Isshin sit up immediately, his face falling into a serious mask, the tone of Ichigo's voice setting of alarm bells, telling the man this was something serious.
Ichigo began to retell his story, explaining about how he was kidnapped what they had done to him and what the plans for him were. The carrot top conveniently left out the part about Grimmjow raping and mating with him, resulting in offspring. Ichigo thought that maybe he could do that when the cubs where around so that his father would be too busy cooing over his "adorable grandchildren" to kill his mate. It worked in theory.
As Ichigo finished his story, Isshin looked thoughtful, obviously trying to think out some way to help Ichigo out of what was happening. Just then Grimmjow popped his brightly coloured head out of the trap door in the corner of the room. Still half asleep the bluenette crawled into the room, Kei hanging onto his father's back and Hikaru hanging from Grimmjow's mouth in his new baby blue onsie, honestly the man took lazy to a new level. The obviously still tired new father crawled his way over to Ichigo, tossed Hikaru gently into his mother's lap and lay down behind him on his stomach.
The room was silent, even the cubs not making a sound, Isshin staring with shock at Grimmjow's sleeping figure. Ichigo sighed in exasperation for the second time in less than an hour, honestly could nothing be easy? Before his father could say anything Ichigo shoved Hikaru into his arms, distracting him the best way he knew how.
"Meet your new grandson Dad!" Ichigo quipped in a showy way, smiling with joy when really his insides where twisting painfully. Isshin stared at the child, pure love and adoration spreading across his face as he stroked the child's head softly. Hikaru purred and smiled softly at the large man. Chirping, the little boy looked over at Kei, obviously wanting to share the discovery of the nice new man. Kei's head poked out from behind Ichigo, curious and confident at the same time.
The little bluenette swaggered his way over to Isshin as best he could and crawled up next to his brother, staring his grandfather straight in the face. A moment's pause as each assessed each other, then Kei settled down and hugged the man, nuzzling into his ugly flower print shirt. Isshin teared up and looked at Ichigo happily, "my son has blessed me with two beautiful grandchildren! Oh Misaki! Look at our grandchildren! Look at the amazing little people our son has made!"
Suddenly though Isshin stopped, looking at the little ones in his lap, and back up to Ichigo and the still slumbering Espada. 'This was it, this was the moment', Ichigo thought to himself, he could see the cogs turning in his father's mind.
"Ichigo, explain" his voice was stony, hard, the orangette knew his father was not in the mood for shit talking now. So, hesitantly the new mother began his story again, this time, filling in the blanks, laying everything out to be known. Watching tensely as his father grew more and more dark, the air around him growing thick, scaring the cubs into crawling over to Ichigo. Isshin stood, Ichigo was scared by this point and he unknowingly, his chest rumbled and let out a growl. Grimmjow woke up groggily from all the emotions travelling through the link, sitting up and looking around for danger.
Isshin at this point was so enraged that his reiatsu had started to pulsate around him physically, Ichigo hissed and retreated to the corner with the cubs behind him, shielded from the fight that was about to break out. Grimmjow coming to his feet in a low crouch and growling fiercely, the air hung tense for what seemed to be forever. Suddenly Grimmjow was against the wall, Isshin's spiritual pressure forcing him back, Ichigo gasping and trying to cover the cubs in his own reiatsu. Grimmjow roaring and trying to get back to a tactical position to better keep his family safe. But Isshin was having none of that, he unsheathed his sword, Ichigo hadn't even seen were he got it from, and pointed it at Grimmjow.
The carrot top was getting worried, he tried to calm himself, tell himself that he was to protect the cubs, trust in Grimmjow to do what he had promised. But the attack came quicker than either had thought possible, Ichigo's father was not holding back. He was going in for the kill.
The orangette screamed bloody murder as he watched his father drive his sword into Grimmjow's chest. It took less than a second and then he felt it, his screams doubled as pain laced its way across his chest engulfing his entire body. It felt like fire and ice, Ichigo had been stabbed before but nothing felt like this, the shared pain of two souls, one physical and another emotional. Ichigo wanted to throw up, his screams not stopping until Isshin realised his son was the one screaming and not Grimmjow.
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Grimmjow was as white as a sheet and gasping with a look of intense shock on his face, he looked to Ichigo and reached out for him, trying to block the pain from going to him. But it was just too much, the pain was more than anything he had ever felt, even when his arm was lopped off. The bluenette was fading fast, he felt Isshin withdraw his sword and with that everything went black.
A/N
T-T sorry.
I'm so horrible.
Also some very good questions were raised that I had forgotten about but alas there are answers.
I must apologies, sometimes I just forget to add stuff in my stories because they are so obvious in my mind and I forget that ppl aren't telepathic
What happened to Orihime?
She was already safely rescued by the others by the time Ichigo was 'kidnapped' and she was taken back to the world of the living.
Where did Ichigo's sword go?
Now I know this isn't fitting to the typical bleach story line but in my mind when he had amnesia Zangetzu was sealed away, because Ichigo couldn't remember anything about the soul reapers and therefore his sword didn't manifest. When Ichigo got pregnant Zangetzu sealed his powers away kinda, so as to not harm the cubs with his intense reiatsu, but still feeding enough in to sustain Ichigo and the cubs.
AS far as Ichigo's cool clothes go and the whole reiatsu influence, in this story Ichigo had just been given a similar garb made in Hueco Mundo (white version of his Bankai, so original lol). His power is still soaking into them but it's still a bit different to traditional bleach.
-.- again I am super sorry…
HOPE ENJOYED REGARDLESS! Heeh (nervous laugh?)
read and review please, don't be too mean because of how late it is
Xx Usakko-chan