Baby Gold

Baby Gold
"I should kill you," "Soooooooooooooon you're so MEAN to me!!!!!" Isshin cried, Ichigo rolled his eyes, "I should kill you for making me come all the way out here Dad, I mean did you HAVE to decide to put all this stuff in the attict a few days before Rukia's due date?" Ichigo huffed as he handed his father a box to put in the attict, "It isn't my fault you didn't bring little Rukia with you! I just wanted to see my daughter-in-law one more time before she became a mommy!!!" he cried as he walked up the ladder with the box in hand, "Dad you know I don't want her traveling between dimensions when she's pregnant, especially a few days before she's scheduled to deliver," he huffed as his father stumbeled into the attict, "I forgot!" he cried, Ichigo rolled his eyes, "Yeah you're just lucky I came out here to help you Old Man, I don't like letting Renji babysit, it scares me, I mean.... what if he convinces her to just have the baby in the living room or something?" he muttered, hearing a loud crash in the upper floor as he sealed another box with tape, "If the floor caves in I'm not staying to help you repair it!" he threatened as Isshin stumbled down the ladder, "Son don't be so cruel! Do you really want your first child to grow up without a grandfather?!" "I pray for it every night Old Man.... not exposing that child to you is the best thing I can do for it," he muttered, handing his father the next box, "You know Ichigo you really should learn what sex the baby is before Little Rukia gives birth," "We tried, they couldn't get an accurate read because the baby kept kicking.... and kicking... and kicking... and kicking...." "Every time?" "Yes, apparently the baby doesn't like people being so close to Rukia..... I think that makes it a boy," he muttered as he took out a new role of duct tape, "I'm serious Son have you even THOUGHT of names?" "Yes, we have a name picked out for a girl AND for a boy," "You better figure out what you're going to name it SOON Boy!" "Why? Can't we just wait and see when the baby is born? I mean what if we decide to change the name anyway?" "The nurse might ask you to pre-name the baby, see, that's what happened to you, I SWORE you were a girl no matter what your mother and the doctor said and that's how you ended up as 'Ichigo'..... don't make the same mistake I did Son," he said with a straight face, Ichigo huffed and threw the duct tape at his father's head, what he HADN'T told Isshin was that he very well knew what the baby's sex was.... or should he say... "babies"...... he and Rukia found out about the twins after five months but hadn't told anyone, even Renji, because they wanted it to be a surprise, they left everyone in the dark and painted the nursery themselves, made sure that during the construction of things like the crib and the changing table Renji and Byakuya didn't get a hint at the "twins" news.... Ichigo was up all that night trying to paint it lilac..... "half pink and half blue, it's perfect" Rukia had said, but oh well, the looks on the faces of their freinds would be well worth it when the twins finally DID make their first appearence..... much, much sooner than Ichigo would have thought.....

"Thanks for the help Son, I have a little something for you," Isshin said as he closed the attict door, "You can keep the fifty yen Dad...." Ichigo muttered back, just wanting to leave so that he could get back to Rukia, "No no not that Son! Something valuable!" he replied, walking into his room and opening the drawer to his nightstand, "You know what a push present is don't you Boy?" "Ofcourse, I'm going to give one to Rukia once she has the baby, why?" Isshin pulled out a beautifull, white gold charm bracelet and handed it to Ichigo, "Give her this, it's what I gave to your mother when she had you," he said, Ichigo blinked as he stared at it, "Dad I don't mean to sound rude but it only has one charm on it..." "Yeah well your mother never DID want any others on that thing, said it would ruin it or something like that, but listen, go get some charms for Little Rukia ok?" he nodded and smiled, staring at the one charm; two doves in a heart; "Thanks Pops," he said

"Are you SURE we shouldn't call Ichigo?" Renji asked as he stared at Rukia, "No Renji, don't call him... you'll worry him for no reason," she muttered back as she turned over in bed, "Yeah, tch, no reason being that your water broke?" "I still have a few days before I go into labor I think, and you shouldn't go to the hospital until you start having contractions because you could get too easily contaminated after your water breaks," she replied with a small groan, he sighed and shook his head, "Whatever but I'm telling him when he gets home..." "As you wish...."

Ichigo looked around the jewlry shop in amusement at all the beautifull charms and trinkets around, he was just getting two new charms put on the bracelet he was going to give Rukia, "Ah here you are," Ichigo turned around and smiled at the woman behind the jewlry counter as she handed him back the bracelet, he opened the velvet case just long enough to inspect the two charms and smiled, "Thank you," he said with the bow of his head, turning to the door as his phone started to ring, "Yo," he answered, putting the cell phone between his ear and his shoulder as he walked out with the bracelet in his pocket, "Woah wait a minute Renji! What?! ..Rukia's in labor!?"

"Why haven't we heard anything?" Renji muttered as he paced around the waiting room, "Renji sit down," Byakuya demanded, watching his leiutenit walk around the tiled floor, "Captain Kuchiki how can you be so calm!? Your sister's having a baby!" he snapped, Byakuya resisted the urge to roll his eyes, labor and babies never bothered him...... unless he was watching it, in which case, he would promptly pass out..... "Ano.... Captain Kuchiki is right Renji.... you shouldn't pace so much, you'll wear yourself out," Orihime said meekly, after Ichigo called her, she and Uryuu raced to Soul Society via a Senkimon, Urahara and Yoruichi tried to follow them but Uryuu, having been afraid his freind's newborn child would be used in an experiment, shot an arrow at Urahara's butt to keep them away.... but that arrow will only last so long..... "Ichigo's father is probbably going insane right now," he noted, "WHERE'S MY GRANDBABY?!!" "Oh Heavens he followed us here," Uryuu muttered with a chill, Byakuya slowly shook his head, he had hoped once upon a time that he'd never have to see that man again..... but that became nothing more than a pipe dream when his sister married it's son.... "Quiet Goat Beard if Rukia had the baby yet these four wouldn't be sitting here," Karin huffed, "Ooooh I can't wait to see my neice or nephew!! I really hope it's a girl so I can dress her up since Bostov left!!!!" Yuzu cried, "You probbably shouldn't be dressing up the baby Yuzu...." Yoruichi muttered, "I want to see my God Child!!!" Urahara cried, "YOUR God Child?" Byakuya asked with a slightly raised eyebrow, "I think not," he replied, "Captain Kuchiki is right, that baby is MY God Child," Renji snorted, Byakuya frowned, "Do not kid yourself Abarai," "Well I hope you're not referring to yourself Captain Kuchiki, you're the uncle, you can't be an uncle AND a God Parent," he said, "Says who?" Uryuu asked, a bit peeved that they all were ignoring him, "Ahem," Hanatarou said quietly as the large group fought, "T-The ba-baby is here-" before he got the words out of his mouth they all rushed up and ran towards Rukia's room, "GRANDBABY!!!!!!" Isshin howled as he slammed into the room, "HUSH you baboon!" Ichigo snapped, racing to the door and slamming it shut just before anyone could get in, "All of you be QUIET or you'll upset them!" he hissed, and by "them" everyone just assumed that Ichigo meant Rukia and the baby...... Ichigo put a finger to his lips and slowly opened the door to let the insane group in, "Awww," they all cooed as they stared at the baby in Rukia's arms, "Hey wait a minute... you've got two!" Renji exclaimed, jerking everyone's attention to Rukia's other arm, "Alright who did you rob?" Yoruichi asked seriously, Rukia tried to frown but she just... couldn't.... "They're both mine you guys," she said, "But Rukia if you were having twins why didn't it show up in the ultra sound?" Orihime asked, "It did, we just didn't tell you," Ichigo replied with a smirk, having ten pairs of eyes glaring at him, "It was my idea, we decided after figuring out that we were having one of each it'd be fun to surprise you guys," Rukia giggled, "That's cruel Little Rukia!" Isshin screamed, "So that's why you didn't let us in the nursery, we would have seen that it was set up for two babies instead of one," Renji mused, Rukia nodded, "Yep," "What are their names?" Yuzu finally asked, "Well, this one here is Tsuki," Rukia said, tilting her head to the first baby they had seen, "And to my other side is Taiyou," she replied, looking over to the boy in her other arm, "Awwwwwwww," everyone cooed, it was Isshin that finally broke the calm silence, "Dibs on a baby!" he called, "Dibs on the other one!" Renji called, making everyone else glare at them both, Isshin reached down and picked up Tsuki wile Renji reached for Taiyou, "Ah good, you people entertain them for an hour or two I'm tired," Rukia laughed, stretching her arms after having to hold the twins in the same position for nearly twenty minutes after Hanatarou left, "Ahem," Byakuya said, glaring at Renji, who sighed and reluctantly handed his baby to his captain, "I think they'll wear eachother out, what do you think?" Ichigo asked as verbal brawls started to ensue over who got which baby next, Isshin had already called dibs on Taiyou when Byakuya was done to which Renji said that wasn't fair.... Byakuya then "dibbed" Tsuki and Yoruichi started to tease him, "I think they've forgotten we're here," Rukia laughed, "And yet I'm ok with that," Ichigo replied as he sat on the edge of her hospital bed and opened the box that her new bracelet was in, she tilted her head, "Remember I told you that I was going to give you something each time you had a baby?" "Yeah, some weird human custom," "Right, well, here's the first one," he said, giving her the bracelet, "Ichigo.... this is amazing," she wispered, he shrugged slightly, "It was my mom's, she got this from Goat Beard over there when she had me," she stared at the beautifull white gold charm bracelet before allowing him to snap it onto her wrist, "The dove charm is one that my dad put on there," he said, pointing to the charm of two doves kissing, "And I put these two on today," he said, pointing to two new charms, one was a rabbit holding a baby rabbit; the other was a sea horse with a baby sea horse entwining tails, "Wow....." she muttered, both charms were symbolic of their new parenthood, "I was thinking that this could be your baby bracelet, instead of you having tons of diffrent jewlry, I'll just get you a new charm with each kid, something symbolic," she smiled, "I love that idea, I hardly wear jewlry except for my wedding ring so that seems to be the PERFECT decision," she replied with a smile, leaning over to kiss her husband, "I just hope that one bracelet will hold all the charms we're going to have to put on it..... if not I'll have to get you a second one," he chuckled, she rolled her eyes, "As long as it's as beautifull as this one," he stared at the white gold chain again and smirked, "It will be," he promised