The Proposal.
A/N: Hey guys, Rukia is now 21 weeks pregnant, and they have nearly almost all the baby stuff that they need. They are painting the baby room and Ichigo, being the fabulous guy that he is, decides to surprise Rukia. Enjoy
Pink paint splashed onto Ichigo's face again, making him sigh, and wonder why he every offered to paint the roof. Reaching into his pocket he felt the box in which he was keeping the item that was going to change his life.
"Hey," Ichigo called to Rukia. "Do you think you could bring me a face cloth please. My face is covered in paint."
"Seriously, Ichigo," Rukia sighed, handing him a damp face cloth. "Can you not get the paint on the ceiling instead of all over your face."
"I shall try my very best," he responded, chuckling slightly. Again, he reached into his pocket and touched the box, to try and calm his nerves. "What do you think of the room so far? Doesn't look to bad, right?"
Rukia spins on her feet to take a look at the whole room. "It looks ok, I guess," she says with a sly smile on her face.
Quickly spinning round, Ichigo tries desperatley to see what is wrong with the room. When he can't see anything he starts freaking out, and turns to Rukia to ask what is wrong, and sees that she is trying her hard not to laugh at him.
"Why you," he says, lunging towards her and wrapping his arms around her waist.
Rukia laughs and stands on her tiptoes and kisses Ichigo. "I love you, Strawberry," she whispers.
"And I love you too, Midget," he whispers back.
He again reaches into his pocket and touches the box that he has. He wants to pull out the box and change everything now, but he knows that he has to wait for the perfect moment.
"Why do you keep reaching into your pocket?" Rukia asks him, causing him to quickly whip his hand out. "You've reached in like 5 times in the past minute."
"I'm playing with myself," Ichigo says hesitantly, hoping Rukia wouldn't ask about it.
"Pahaha, you are such a dork sometimes," she laughs.
Ichigo laughs along with her before starting again on painting the roof.
"You know," Rukia said as paint fell down onto Ichigo's face again. "You would get less paint on your face if you were to use a ladder to reach up there."
Ichigo sighed and turned to Rukia. "I am well aware of this but, unfortunately, we do not have a ladder."
"Really?" She asked, confused. "Then, what is that big metal thing in the corner?"
"There is no big metal thing in the..."
Ichigo turned around to see a stepladder resting against the wall in the corner that he had painted half an hour ago.
"Wha.. Why.. How... Where..." Ichigo stammers
"It's been sitting there for about half an hour," Rukia says, confused at Ichigo's confusion. "I assumed that you put it there."
"I never brought in a stepladder," Ichigo said, confused at the sudden appearance of the ladder. "Did you put it there?"
"Dude," Rukia said, holding her hands up defensively. "I'm pregnant. I'm not allowed to lift heavy stuff."
Deciding to not question it any further, Ichigo grabs the ladder and places it in the middle of the room and starts to climb up.
"ICHHIIIIGOOOOO!" Yells Ishin, charging into the room and diving at his son.
"What the HELL!" Ichigo yells, climbing further up the ladder to avoid his father's dive.
"DON'T STAND ON THE LAD..."
Just as Ishin shouts out this warning, the ladder starts to wobble and then falls apart, causing Ichigo to shout out in surprise and fall flat on his back on top of all the pieces of the ladder.
"Well, you can't say I didn't warn.." Ichigo swiftly punches his father in the face, making him shut up.
"I'm going to go take a shower," Ichigo said, barely able to keep the anger and pain out of his voice. "That was a terrible prank to pull dad, I could have been really hurt."
Ichigo storms off before Ishin could say anything, leaving him to cry to Rukia.
"Why did you do that Mr. Kurosaki?" Rukia asked politely.
"Please, call me dad," Ishin said, giving Rukia a thumbs up. "And I didn't do it. But I did see a little lion teddy bear walk out of here with nuts and bolts in it's hand. I was confused as to why the lion was walking anyway so I wasn't really focusing on the screws and... Hey, where'd you go?"
Rukia had left Ishin mid speech, because she knew exactly who had taken the screws out of the ladder.
She was just about to barg into Ichigo's room when she heard his voice. Who was he talking to?
"... really hurt my back." Ichigo said.
"Oh, well I'm sorry about that," the other voice said. "Next time I'll be sure to put some cushions on the steps so you have something nice to land on."
"Shut up, Kon," Ichigo muttered. "All you needed to do was remove a couple of screws so that I would fall and bump myself a little bit, not so that the whole ladder gets destroyed."
"Yeah, well," Kon responds, suddenly angry at Ichigo. "You didn't specify that that was all you wanted, so shut up you big idiot. Anyway, are you sure she'll come here."
"Of course she will," Ichigo responded, confidence flowing through every syllable. "She'll know it was you and she'll want to confront you about it."
"Ichigo," Rukia roars as she bursts into his room. "I am going to kill you, you devious little bast... What is going on."
Ichigo's room was adorned with flowers and candles and everything looked really romantic.
"Rukia," Ichigo started. "I love you, and I have always imagined us growing old together."
"What's happening here, Ichigo?" Rukia asked, feeling slightly dazed.
"Rukia," Ichigo said again, as he pulled the box out of his pocket and opened it. "Will you marry me?"
Rukia gazed in amazement at the size of the diamond on the ring. It must have cost Ichigo a fortune to buy this, and he was willing to pay that for her.
"Yes," she whispered. "Yes, of course I will."
Ichigo smiled and wrapped his arms around her. "I love you so much," he whispered as he put the ring on her finger.
Rukia smiles up at him and whispers back, "I love you too."
A/N: First off, I would just like to apologise for the long wait for this one, I have been swamped by school work. Secondly, what do you think? I thought that I would do a lovely smoothy chapter like this eventually, and so, I had to do it cause I know you guys love this smooshy stuff. So, please Review and favourite (only favourite if you really liked it though, I'm not forcing you :L) and please, send in baby names, and finally, thank you for reading. I love you guys.