The Way I Love You pt.11

The Way I Love You Part 11
Month Six: Secrets, Kicking, And Paint
"Ichigo!" Rukia shouted in excitment, "Ichigo!" "Wat!?" "Our furniture and stuff is here!" she called, taking a pair of scissors to the first box, "Oh," Ichigo said as he came down the stairs, "I guess we should get started on the nursery today then, I'll call Renji and Byakuya and have them come over to help," he suggested, grabbing the phone as she cracked open one of the boxes, "Oooooh wat are these?" she asked, "Oh those? Those are packing peanuts," he said with a shrug as he dialed, "Wat are they for?" "They're just little peices of styrafoam that protect fragile things from breaking in the mail," he replied with a shrug, her eyes widened and she started to break the little peanuts into even smaller peices, she soon found it to be quite entertaining and continued on without realising that Ichigo had gotten off the phone, "Renji'll be here in ten minutes, will you leave those stupid things alone?" he griped, he was more than eager to speak to Byakuya about this new turn in events but the man had avoided him for the last week and a half so he wasn't exactly in a great mood, "They're fascinating," she said quietly, that, however, cooled him down considerably, he always loved that child-like charm about her and this just made her even cuter, "Great, first bubblewrap, now peanuts, wat packing supplies are you going to be astounded by next Rukia? Stamps?" a packing peanut was then immediatly flung at his head and hit him in the eye

Ichigo sighed and hung up the phone with Byakuya, hearing another sneeze from Rukia's direction, "Ok that's it," he muttered, she had been sneezing like crazy for five minutes now, "Hey wat are you doing!?" she snapped as he picked up the box of packing peanuts and started carrying it towards the trash, "These aren't toys," he muttered, "NO!!! Come back with my peanuts!!" she sqwealed, running forth and, even with her pregnant body, leaping up and pouncing on him, landing on his back like a lion on a zebra, "AGH! Rukia get down!" he muttered, she wasn't all that heavy, not much more than usual wich surprised him, but he didn't want to risk her falling and hurting herself, "Never!!!" "Wow, did I interrupt some weird love game or something?" they both turned around and found Renji closing the front door, Rukia hopped down from Ichigo's back and he sighed, "Haha very funny," "I'm seriouse, I've seen some pretty freaky stuff in my day," "Well no, but Ichigo was trying to take-" she turned and saw that the box had been disposed of, "My peanuts!!!"

"Sooooo wat are we painting?" Renji asked as they walked into the nursery, "I assume the walls?" Byakuya said, "No I mean... never mind..." "We're going to paint half the room with a daytime theme and the other half with a night time theme, now it's very important that the night side has the crib and any other sleeping goods and the day side as the toys and things like that," she said as she finished laying down nespapper over the floor, "Hm, that's actually a pretty cool idea Rukia," Renji mused, she smirked, "Thanks, now Ichigo, you and Renji will be working on the day side, and Brother and I will be working on the night side," he waved her comment off and shrugged, "Sure sure," he replied

"Rukia!!" the petit woman sighed loudly and paused in her painting, "No Renji," she growled, "But Rukia I'm HUNGRY!!!" he shouted, Ichigo, having heard this argument for the last ten minutes, was about ready to say anything to make Renji shut up, "You no Rukia we didn't have lunch, you should just go on and make something," he said with a shrug, she frowned, "Why am I the designanted cook?" "Because you're better at it than the rest of us and your food is actually edible," despite a frown and a glare she muttered a quiet "fine" and stood up, walking out of the room and down the stairs, after only a matter of seconds of more painting Renji put his paint roller down and started towards the door as well, "Well I'm gonna go take a leak," he said as he left, Ichigo just wrinkled his nose, "Well thanks for notifying us of that important step in your life," he replied as Renji walked off, he sighed lightly and shook his head, "I SWEAR sometimes he must have been born in a lab somewere and some poor scientist is missing their test subject...." he muttered, pausing for a short moment before speaking again, "Byakuya, Renji told me about your decision," he said quietly, the older man did not reply and continued to roll dark blue paint up and down the walls, "Why are you doing it? Because you want to or because you have to?" still no response, he sighed, putting his roller back in the pan of light blue paint and charging across the newspapper-covered floor over to his brother-in-law, "Hey!" he said, taking the paint roller and effectivly causing Byakuya to stop, "I'm talking to you," "I heard you, I just do not think those things require answers," he replied simply, Ichigo frowned, "I no you don't want to do this," "And why do you think that?" "I don't THINK it, I no it, Byakuya... you loved Hisanna, just the way you look wen her name is mentioned is proof enough of that, and I no that if it were me... well I would never want to have kids with anyone but Rukia, and I wouldn't want to raise them myself," "Even so, it is not as if I have a choice, the Kuchikis are persi-" "Look, as much as I hate to say it, and I really DO hate to say it, you're my b-brother now... you're family, and I protect my family, so I won't let you do this, more importantly I'm not going to let you have a child who you can't truly give all your love to, think about it, if you do this everytime you look at your child you'll feel a twinge of pain, maybe even a little anger, because it'll just be a reminder that you could never have that with Hisanna," he looked away from the ginger-haired boy, "You no... perhaps being related, by marrige thankfully, is not going to be quite as excrutiatingly throat-cutting as I assumed it would be," "Um...... thanks?"

"Alright," Rukia said as she walked into the room with four plates somehow juggled on her arms, "Brother, one fish and vegtable sandwitch," she said, handing him his, "Renji.... one carcass on a plate..." she muttered as she watched drool form near the corners of his mouth, "And Ichigo you and I will eat our normal food," she said with a slight smile, plopping down on the floor, "Rukia?" "Hm?" "How exactly are you planning on painting the ceiling?" Byakuya asked as Rukia looked up, "Hm... I'm not quite sure..." "See Rukia? This is wat Google is for," Ichigo said as he started to chow down, she shrugged and was about to take a bite of her own food wen she sensed a gaze on her, slowly, she turned and saw Renji eyeing her food, "Alright why are you staring at me like that?" "I think he's looking at your food," Ichigo mused, "Ok let me rephrase that, why are you staring at my food?" "Well your's smells better, why does your's smell better?" "Maybe because mine is more than just an array of diffrent meats," she muttered, gasping all of a sudden, "Hm? Wat's wrong?" Ichigo asked, she stared blankly at the floor for a small moment and placed her hand over her stomach, "They're both kicking at once... I've never felt that before..." she mumbeled, "Are you sure it is not just one baby kicking with both feet?" Byakuya asked, Rukia shook her head, "No, they both have very distinctive kicks," she said, "Let me feel," Ichigo said, not waiting for a response before placing his hand beside her's, "Wow... this is amazing!" he laughed, "Let me!" Renji said, reaching over as well, Rukia frowned and then she saw her Brother start getting closer, "Ok that's enough of the zoo exhibit, everybody off," she commanded, standing up and causing Renji and Ichigo to collide heads, she sighed lightly as she leaned against the wall and shook her head, "Honestly Ichigo these two certainly are YOUR children! Everytime someone else gets too close to me they start kicking away like there's no tommorrow, they make a fuss everytime they hear screaming, they kick erytime they hear crying, I swear they're going to be born with hero complexes like YOU," she said, "Um Rukia," "Yes?" "That wall is still wet..." she got up immediatly and turned around to see a Rukia-shaped outline imprinted on the once blue, and still freshly painted, wall, she growled, "You should have warned me..." "I thought it was obviouse...."