A/N - This is the first "Bleach" fanfiction that i am going to publish on here. Constructive critisizm is appriciated.

"Renji..." - Italizized - thoughts

_ - Bold Line - POV change

The beginning…

"Uncle Renji! That's not fair!" came the shrill cry of an upset toddler.

"Life isn't fair." I retorted pushing her plate of broccoli towards her.

"But why!," she shrieked, pushing the plate away violently. The little green tree's flying onto the table.

"Because you haven't eaten your vegetables yet, Rin." I said in the nicest voice I could muster, brushing my long red locks behind my ears. Struggling to lean over the table with my hug stomach in the way.

"but I don't like vegetables! They taste like grass!" She said, crossing her arm's. Her face contorting into a disgusted grimace.

"Rukia's not going to be happy about this…" I thought as I put a hand over my stomach.

"Please, Rin, can you please just eat half off them? See, I'll even eat some too." Rin's milk chocolate eye's widened in awe as she watched me pick up one of the green vegetables, and bring it to my mouth, I bit into it. Eating half of it in one bite.

"See they're good, now you try." I said, picking one up for the stunned four year old. Waving it in front of her face.

I mentally sighed as her tiny fingers wrapped around the vegetable. Bringing it to her mouth, she stuffed the whole thing down her throat in one go. I swear she ate like her father sometimes.

"Good girl," I smiled as she picked up another one "Just a couple more, and then you can have your dessert."

I watched as she continued to eat. Wondering if this is how it would be in a few years… If the baby ever decided it wanted to come out anytime soon. That was, of course, due to the fact that I was already 9 and a half months. Although, Unohana-san had insisted that that was the norm for shinigami pregnancies, especially since i was male. I remember crying to her in the middle of the night because the child had taken up the head down breech position. She comforted me and informed me that meant that the baby would be coming soon. However, the child had been in that same position for over four weeks. Making it very difficult to walk or even move.

"Can I have dessert now?" she asked loudly as she presented her mostly clean plate. I licked the end of a napkin and wiped all of the broccoli chunks off her face before nodding and handing her one of the chocolate bars that Ichigo had brought specifically for his daughter while she was staying with her Uncle Byakuya and I.

I groaned as I stood, cracking my spine in several places before waddling off to the room that my lover and I shared.

Later that night…

After putting Rin to bed I had trouble putting on my sleeping clothes before finally slipping into bed. I readjusted a few pillows to cradle my stomach and back. I readjusted my hip's for the baby and right before I was about to fall asleep, an intense pain curled around the base of my spine, putting an immense amount of pressure on my pelvis before disappearing a few moment's later.

I cried out softly at the unexpected sensation, rubbing my stomach soothingly. "Must be Braxton-hicks…" I thought. After all, I had been getting them quite a lot since my 8th month.

I closed my eye's and settled back into bed again, almost falling sleep before the same pain returned again. Curling into my thigh's and a little further up my spine. I sighed and readjusted again, managing to ignore the so-called Braxton-hicks contractions for about fourty minutes before they came back faster and harder than ever.

"Oh fuck…" I groaned, not so much because of the pain but more of the fact that I knew it was time. The baby was on it's way. "And Byakuya's working late tonight…" I mentally groaned. Sitting up I heaved my leg's over the side of the bed, taking a few deep breaths to steady myself I climbed off the bed and into the dimly lit hallway. I then began to wobble myself towards the servants courtiers, careful not to wake up Rin as she slept in the guest room next to ours.

"Damn it…" I cried as another contraction caused me to pause and hold onto a coffee table. I tried doing those stupid looking breathing exercises that Matsumoto had suggested at the baby shower a few weeks ago.

"It will ease the pain during labor…" I remembered she'd said while downing another glass of the sake while burping her six month old son while her husband and my trusted friend, Hisagi, chuckled darkly beside her. Those two where the most irresponsible parents sometimes. I thought as the contraction peaked in intensity.

"Nnnnngh," I moaned. It freaking hurt. Although I knew that the worst was yet to come. Due to watching Yumichika almost tear off Ikkaku's arm half-way through labor. And don't even get me started on the horrors of watching Hitsugaya-taichou's small body squeeze out twins. Kenpachi's twins. I will admit, I almost fainted.

"I hate you Bya," I whispered as the pain faded and I walked on. Feeling the bottom of my womb tightening I rubbed soothing circles on the underside of my rounded belly.

I continued on until I found a kitchen full of giggling servant girls. Only then did I realize, as I walked in, that they were giggling over a very sleepy looking Rin. Of whom was holding a big glass of water in her small hands.

"Couldn't sleep?" I asked as I walked over. The giggling ceased immediately.

"Renji-sama!" a couple of them cried, immediately standing to attend me.

Rin ignored them and just slide off the kitchen table she has been perched on.

"Rin?" I said, clenching my teeth as i felt the unmistakable pressure of my water ready to break.

"Yes, Uncle Renji?" She asked innocently, as she sat her cup of water down.

"I need you to do something very important, sweety, okay?" i said as i struggled to kneel down to her eye level. Careful not to make any sudden movements.

"What is it?" She answered, curiousity dancing in her eyes.

"I need...Mmmm," i broke off mid-sentence to rub at my left hip as i felt one of the baby's pushing down. "I need you to... go call uncle Bya, okay? Tell him that i am in a lot of pain and i need him to come home right now."

I watched as she nodded feverantly, with wide concerned eyes that darted to my ballooned stomach.

"Go." i commanded, out of breath. She jumped at my harsh tone and ran out of the kitchen.

I nodded and stood up, probably too quickly. A contraction came out of no where. I screamed out and clutched the counter top. A few servants coming to my aid.

"I need some water and a clock." I said after the pain subsided, remembering how Unohana-san had told me to time my contractions.

I heard a few mumbled "of course" and then a "Would you like to sit down, master Renji?" I shook my head and began to wiggle my hip's while spreading my leg's just a bit. That was so much better.

I stayed like that for what seemed like maybe fourty-five minutes. Pacing the kitchen while holding the watch that someone had handed me. taking small sips of water as one of the servants wiped the sweat off my forehead. My loose red locks becoming damp as another contraction squeezed my hips. "Oh hell... my contractions are eight minutes apart..." i realized with dismay as i glanced at the watch.

"Rin... hurry... please..."

It seemed in no time at all that another contraction had hit and I was squatting close to the floor, rolling my hip's. Oh gods, I wanted it OUT. And my water hadn't even broken yet! Why did I ever agree to have this baby!

I ran home as fast as i could, as soon as i heard Rin's panicked voice on the other side of the receiver. Even though it was right in the middle of a Taichou and lieutenant meeting. Which is why i am now being followed by some of Renji's closest friends: Hisagi, Yumichika, and Ikkaku and of course Unohana-taichou who had over heard my conversation. I knew i shouldn't have worked late.

As soon as we all entered the front room of our home, i saw Rin crying at the foot of the couch.

"Rin, whats wrong? Were is uncle Renji?" I asked coming over to rub her back.

"He's in the kitchen!," she sobbed "You gotta go help him! The baby is coming!"

"Okay, you just stay here for now." and I bolted towards the kitchen, dragging Unohana-taichou with me.

"Renji!" I heard the most concerned voice call out to me. I knew who it belonged too.

"Byakuya…!" I moaned as his form knelt in front of mine, rubbing the small section of my back.

"Mmmmmnnn…!" I moaned as the contraction peaked, reaching up to hold onto Byakuya's shoulder with my death grip. After the pain subsided I glared up at him, "No more sex EVER." I growled, resting my sweaty forehead against his chest. I thought I heard him faintly chuckle as Unohana-taichou showed up by my side. They were talking but I could barely hear them, I was too busy concentrating on my breathing.

"Hey Renji," Hisagi said quietly, showing up at my side and helping Bya lift me up.

"Hisagi...?" i asked faintly "What the hell are you doing here?" I asked frantically, realizing that i was now naked from the waist down as Unohana-san removed my bottoms.

I heard him chuckle "I am not going to miss the birth of my little nephew. Besides, i thought you could use a little help."

My eye's widened as I felt something inside me burst and warm liquid leak down my thigh's and make a puddle at my feet. "Finally!" I thought excitedly. Maybe now things would move along much faster.

I heard a disgusted noise from somewhere behind me. There was only one person who could think that child-birth was the most disgusting thing on the planet.

"Yumi..." I sighed as Byakuya and Hisagi begain helping me walk down a long hall, to our prepared birthing room.

"That's me." i heard him chuckle, yet he maintained a distance behind me.

"I think a water-birth would be best for Renji…" I heard Unohana-taichou say quietly to Byakuya in the background.

"Lemme guess," i panted as another contraction squeezed my pelvis "Ikkaku...?"

I heard them both chuckle as a familiar aura came to my side. "You know i am a very curious person. I had to see how you would react to squeezing a baby out from between your legs. Oh, and i am also here to confiscate your man card."

I scowled as i heard him chuckle. As soon as we were near the bed I dropped to my knee's. Using the bed as support I spread my leg's apart and rested my head on my crossed arm's.

"Have you been timing your contractions?" Unohana-taichou asked as she kneeled beside me. I felt her fingers probing, surveying my cervix.

"Four minutes…!" I moaned, remembering that I'd dropped the watch when Byakuya showed up.

"Hmmm, your coming along nicely, Renji. Much quicker that I expected. How long do you think you've been in labor?"

I was thinking about it before another contraction came.

"Mnnnnnngh..!" I moaned loudly, squeezing Byakuya's gloved hand . The pain wrapped around the base of my spine and curled inward towards my pelvis applying unbelievable amounts of pressure as it squeezed. Even after it had gone, my buttocks and hip's still ached. I felt Hisagi's warm hand massage the base of my spine.

"Fuck…!," I cursed. "M-maybe... fifteen hours?" i answered.

I felt another presence enter the room, I opened my eye's to see Hanataro standing by the door way.

I convulsed slightly, trying to breathe in and out.

"You are 8 centimeters, you can start pushing at 10. But I'd rather you wait and see if you'll go to 10 and a half centimeters. Since your hip's are still narrow, even though they widened to accommodate the womb during pregnancy."

"I wanna walk around." The pain and aching ceased a little whenever I was moving my hip's.

"I have no problem with that." Unohana-taichou said as she made her way out of the room and into the wash room, where i heard running water.

Byakuya and Hisagi helped me up and supported me as we walked around the room. I watched with hazy eyes as Yumi and Hanataro went to help Unohana-san, although Ikkaku just leaned up against the wall. I leaned against Bya as another contraction hit. We stopped walking, I opened my leg's a little wider and squatted close to the floor, rocking my hip's as I felt the baby turn and start pushing it's way into the birth canal.

"Nnnnnhgh," I choked, squatting down to the floor.

"Byakuya…!" I moaned as I felt an immense pressure in my pelvis.

"Yes, honey?" He was rubbing my back.

"I gotta…push!"

"Well, that wasn't long at all." Unohana-taichou said as she returned from Byakuya's bathing room. "Hanataro, please help Renji out of his top."

After I was stripped, rather awkwardly from my top I was placed in a tub filled with luke warm water.

"Alright, gentleman, we are going to take this nice and slow. The baby seems to be coming faster than most. Renji, your still not fully dilated, so please refrain from pushing at the moment."

The pinching squeezing pain made it extremely annoying and painful just to sit with my back to the tub. I rolled forward to squat in the water. My leg's spread so that both of my knee's where pressed against opposite sites of the tub. This position felt the best. I realized that Byakuya had taken off his captain haori and gloves, he was kneeling at my side, collecting my damp strands of hair. Hanataro was on the my other side, his sleeves rolled up as his fingers where probing my cervix. Unohana-taichou was in front of me, her sleeves where also rolled up.

Ikkaku had joined us in the wash-room, Hisagi was rubbing my back and Yumi was sitting next to Unohana-san, holding a pale colored towel that had various medical tools in it.

"Are you ready, Renji?" she asked as Hanataro nodded towards her.

I shook my head viciously as I choked on another contraction. "get it out!, get it out!, get it out!"

She laughed as I closed my eye's. "Hanataro has just informed me that you are indeed 10 centimeters. You can start pushing now, if you'd like."

I felt like I couldn't breathe. This was it. We waited about 20 seconds before another contraction came, and I pushed.

"Oooohhhhmm," I moaned loudly as I gripped the side of the tub. I pushed until the contraction faded away.

"Good, good," Unohana-taichou said appreciatively "A few more pushes like that and you'll be crowning. Now just relax, and remember to breathe through the contractions."

I nodded, keeping my eye's closed. Though, I removed both of my hands from the side of the tub to grip Byakuya's and Hisagi's forearms.

"I hate you," I glared over at Bya before another contraction came.

"Uuhhhnn," I pushed as hard as I could.

"Breathe, Renji," I heard Byakuya chide.

"Shut the fuck uppp," I moaned, panting as the contraction peaked, i heard Ikkaku chuckle in the background.

"Oowww," I moaned as the contraction passed.

"Excellent, you can take a break now, if you want." Unohana-taichou said, her hands still positioned under the water to cradle the baby when it finally… pops out.

"No, nooo, I want it…out." I said as another contraction came and I pushed digging my nails into Byakuya's forearm.

"That was only a partial accident," I glared at him after the pain passed.

"It stings!," I told Unohana-taichou as I felt something large start pushing it's way out of me.

"Good! Your crowning!" she smiled. "Gently now, small pushes this time."

I pushed gently, it hurt like fucking hell.

"Godsss!," I screamed as the baby's head slipped from me. I felt warm tears slip down my cheeks.

"Good now one big one and I'll pull the baby from you," I did as I was told and as I pushed Unohana-taichou pulled the baby from me. And before I knew it, there was a wailing new born in front of my face. He was a little blue and was covered in veins of sticky white and red materials. Oh and yes, it was a he.

"You did it, Renji!" Hisagi said as Byakuya cut the umbilical cord.

Byakuya stroked my hair and rubbed my back as Unohana-taichou cleaned the baby and jotted down the necessary information needed for the birth certificate.

Byakuya helped me out of the tub and into a bath robe. I was so exhausted, my pelvis ached, and my legs felt like jelly. I needed to lay down.

"Now, Renji, you may feel some smaller contractions but that's just your body delivering the afterbirth." she said as she handed me my son wrapped up in the pale towel. "I'm afraid I must be going now, Ukitake-taichou's labor is due to be induced this morning. But Hanataro will help you with the rest of it." and as she said that my body started having small contractions.

I took the baby and immediately gave it to Byakuya as I ran over to the toilet and squatted over it as i felt my body begin to deliver the after-birth.

Hisagi and Yumi came over to my side as i began to leak blood from my entrance and small contractions dulled my senses.

"I hate giving birth..." i thought as i gave a small push to ease to significantly smaller thing from my body.

Later That Morning...

"Renji, Renji you have to wake up. The baby's hungry," as i came too, i heard growing wails. I sat up in what i realized was our bed, before hissing with extreme discomfort and laying back down in an upright position. I felt this warm squiriming thing be placed in my arms, i was too sleepy to realize that it was my baby. Until Byakuya's pale hand lifted the baby's head up to one of my exposed nipples and i felt it latch on and start to drink.

I watched with blurry eye's as my baby's throat worked hard to swallow mouthful after mouthful of milk. Some of it spilling out of the sides of his pink rosy lips. He had pale skin like his father, blue-black hair like his father a well, but he had my cherry-golden eye's.

I sighed, and while supporting the baby with one arm and Byakuya's hand still holding the babys head, i reached out and brought Byakuya's face to mine as we shared a passionate kiss.

"No more babies..." i whispered after i'd broken the kiss and felt the throbing sore muscle in my pelvis and my back.

I felt his chuckle as he gave me one more kiss before running his free hand through my hair.

"Oh that's just the baby talking," he smirked. and continued to help me feed the baby by switching nipples.

"I mean it! your carrying the next one!" i said, brushing my lose hair behind my ears.

"Oh mm-hmm, sure. So you want more?"

"No!"

"but you just said!" he exclaimed, laughing lightly, brushing the baby's temple with his thumb.

"Whatever..."

...

"So you want another?" he asked,wiping up some of the milk that had escaped the babys throat.

"Mabye..."

I heard him chuckle, giving me a light kiss.

"I love you,"

"I love you, too."

A/N - Thanks for reading! ^^ (I hope the labor scene was a better one this time?) Rate and message please.

Sorry if I forgot to put something or got something wrong. ('Bleach' is a new FANFICTION anime for me.)