Cold Case Love
Ichigo sat straight up breathing heavily, after he got sick he decided to take a nap but he had the worse dream he dreamt Shiro was sick and dying in the hospital which scared the shit out of him because the last time he dreamt Shiro was in the hospital he was. Ichigo jumped out of bed throwing his shoes on startling Shinji who was sitting in a chair watching tv.
"What's up." Shinji asked watching him.
"I had a dream Shiro was in the hospital and the last time I dream he was in the hospital he was in the hospital and the only reason he would be in the hospital is cause..."
"Fuck ass Gregg." Shinji said standing up. "Hand a pair of tennis shoes I can't fuck nobody up with flip flops on." he caught the pair of shoes Ichigo threw his way.
"Ima fuck Gregg up on sight." Ichigo growled throwing the door open. "I don't give a fuck how famous I am anybody can catch an ass whoopin."
Byakuya was sitting on his bed typing away on his computer when his phone rang he looked at the caller id he didn't recognize the number but he figured he'd answer anyway. "Byakuya Kuchiki speaking." he said in his most polite voice.
"Hello, this is the Beverly Hills Hospital we have Shirosaki Kurosaki in our custody and you are his emergency contact."
Byakuya knocked his computer off his lap and jumped out of bed getting dressed quickly. "Can you tell me what happen?"
"It seems he was choked to the point of passing out he is breathing on his own now but he is not awake."
"I'm on my way." Byakuya said hanging up and running down the stairs, everyone was sitting on the couch in the living room watching a movie. "I have to go I'll be back later."
"Is everything okay?" Renji asked Byakuya looked frantic which made Renji worry.
"Everything is peachy." Byakuya grabbed his keys from the hook and ran out the door then he had a thought. "Ichigo will probably be there and so will Shinji, I'll need back up." Byakuya ran back in the house grabbed Grimmjow by the wrist dragging him outside and into the car with him. "Shiro's in trouble and if he's in the kind of trouble I think he's in I'll need you to hold onto Ichigo." Byakuya said pulling out of the garage and onto the street.
"What kind of trouble is he in?" Grimmjow was very confused Byakuya looked extremely worried and he was just dragged out of the house luckily he was fully dressed.
"Shiro's in the hospital. There's only one reason Shiro would be in the hospital and its his ex boyfriend Greg. Because of Greg Shiro has spent a lot of time in and out of the hospital which is why the whole two Zangestu thing started."
"Why do I have to come?"
"Because 9 times out of 10 Ichigo already knows and he already on his way out there and Ichigo told not only Shiro but Greg the next time he put his hands on Shiro he would kill him and I don't doubt him, plus Shinji is with him and I can't hold off the both of them."
"Alright, I'll hold Ichigo down for as long as I can."
"There he is right there." Shinji said pointing out the window as they drove into the hospital parking lot they could see Gregg standing outside smoking a cigarette. "Hurry up and park the car so I can fuck him up." Ichigo parked quickly and recklessly and jumped out of the car headed straight at Gregg.
"Didn't I tell you if you ever put your hands on my brother again, Ima fuck you up?" Ichigo said walking up to Gregg stopping at his feet, Shinji stood right behind him.
Gregg stood to his full high which was 6'4 looking down on Ichigo. "And didn't I tell you that'll I'll do whatever I want to my property." he blew smoke in Ichigo's face which was a mistake because in the next second he was on the ground from the force of Ichigo's punch.
Ichigo stepped over him bending so he was eye level. "Now tell me why Shinji and I shouldn't start beating yo ass." he said poking the man in the head. "Normally we don't jump people but for you we'll make an acception." Shinji walked up beside Ichigo fists at his sides. They looked at each other nodded and then went in for the kill sending punch after punch Gregg's way even throwing some kicks in here and there.
"Oh shit I see em." Grimmjow said as Byakuya pulled into the parking lot. "They are really fucking that guy up." Byakuya parked quickly noticing he parked right next to Ichigo.
"I'll get Shinji, you get Ichigo." Byakuya jumping out of the car running towards the altercation. He grabbed Shinji's waist at the same time Grimmjow grabbed Ichigo. "Stop it."
"Get off me." Shinji said trying to escape.
"Let me the fuck go. You can get some too." Ichigo growled to Grimmjow.
"Lets go into the hospital." Byakuya said dragging Shinji with him.
"Come on, Ichi." Grimmjow said pulling him along.
"You are so fucking lucky." Ichigo growled to Greg. "You better thank your fucking lucky stars he got me."
Grimmjow pulled Ichigo into the hospital with Byakuya and Shinji following them to Shiro's hospital room. Byakuya dragged Shinji to Shiro's room knocking on the door before walking in not waiting for an answer. Shiro was sitting up in his hospital bed when they came in getting checked out by the nurse, he head popped up when they walked in. As soon as Shiro and Ichigo locked eyes they ran up to hug each other tightly.
"I'm sorry." Shiro said.
Ichigo pulled away to look at his brother he was confused why was Shiro apologizing none of that stuff they were fighting about mattered as far as Ichigo was concerned. "What?"
"I'm sorry. I know that I don't treat you that good and its because I know you're always going to be there for me but that's not true you can't always be there for me." Ichigo tried to speak but Shiro wasn't finished. "And that's not bad you can't always be there for me you have to live your life. I can't go around living like you're not going anywhere any more you're not obligated to protect me and be there for me you do it because you love me and I need to respect that. I love you." he pulled Ichigo back in for a hug Ichigo held him close.
"Thank god that's all fixed up." Byakuya sighed in relief he walked over to the boys. "So how are you?"
Ichigo's jaw tensed, he was angry again. "Oh yeah, I was outside handling some business I'll go finish. Shinji?"
"No." Shiro said grabbing Ichigo's arms. "I'm pressing charges this time he tried to kill me this time. He's going away for a long time."
"Are you sure? Cause I'll fuck him up real good."
"I'm sure." Shiro looked at Shinji. "I'm sure."
"All you gotta do is say the word." Shinji said holding his hands out.
Shiro was released shortly after everyone got there and gave his statement to the police and now they were headed home with Ichigo and Shinji driving behind them. They knew Shiro would be all over the news soon so they tried to get home without getting any traffic violations but it seemed word traveled fast because both Byakuya's phones were ringing off the hook before he even got out the parking lot.
"Bya." Shiro said sitting in the back seat on the way home. "When I get home am I going to put up a video on my channel explaining everything because I want my fans to hear the truth from me before this whole thing gets outta hand. And I wanna go on Ran's show to talk about it so I can let out the whole truth about everything; the twin thing, the alias I wanna let everything out and then I don't wanna talk about it anymore."
"Got it." Byakuya said handing Grimmjow his phone. "I'm calling Ran right now. Grimm be my secretary work the phone while I drive."
Grimmjow reluctantly grabbed the phone. "She calling."
"Speak of the devil. Answer it." Grimmjow answered. "Hello, Ran." Byakuya said
"What's up with my cousin? Is he okay? I'm hearing all kind of things I heard he was in the hospital because he got in a car accident, I'm hearing of a fight, I'm hearing he fell down, I heard he was dead so what is the truth." Rangiku asked frantically.
Shiro chuckled. "I'm fine, Ran, actually I wanted to talk about it on your show so I can get it all over with." Shiro's phone rang. "It's my mom." he answered it. "Hi mom, give me a second." he put the phone on mute. "Do you think that'll be okay, Ran?"
"Oh its fine with me you know you are always welcome on the show."
"Thanks, love you."
"Love you, too, bye." Rangiku said hanging up.
"I didn't know you and Rangiku were cousins." Grimmjow said.
"Talk to your mom." Byakuya said to Shiro. "They're not." he answered Grimmjow. "Ran and Renji are blood cousins and Shiro and Renji are like brothers so Rangiku just calls Shiro her cousin too."
"Hi mom." Shiro said to his mother over the phone. "I'm fine...no I'm not dead...I was going to talk to you later...you don't have to come over...okay see you there."
"And there's my mom. "Grimmjow said "Hi mom...no he's fine...because he's sitting behind me in the car...you don't have to come over...okay see you there." Grimmjow turned to look at Shiro. "My mom's gonna hug you into her boobs don't fight it she'll just hold you harder."
"Got it." Shiro said nodding.
"Oh God everyone is calling at once." Byakuya huffed "We'll explain all of this when we get home." they were now on the street they lived on and he could see the paparazzi crowding the game to the house. He punched the horn. "Move out of the way you're not even allowed to be here." he yelled pulling into the driveway. "If you come on my property you getting arrested." he pulled into his garage everyone jumped out of the car Ichigo and Shinji parked behind them doing to same they went into the house quickly.
"Are you okay, Shiro?" Toshiro asked when they walked in the house. "Its all over everything that you've been in the hospital."
"I'm fine." Shiro said
"I don't have to fuck nobody up do I?" Renji said holding his fist out.
"Ichi and Shinji already handled it."
"Damn right." Ichigo said. Just then Masaki rushed in with tears in her eyes followed by a tired looking Isshin.
"There's my babies." she said holding Ichigo and Shiro's heads to her bosom.
"Mom," Ichigo said. "I wasn't the one in the hospital."
She ignored him. "I should of known there was something wrong when Ichi got sick suddenly. He's always sick when Shiro's in the hospital."
"What!" said both boys pulling away. "Nu un."
"Yes, my darlings." She pulled them back to her bosom. "Haven't you ever noticed that whenever Shiro went to the hospital you were suddenly sick you never went to school when Shiro went into his surgeries or even a check up you always got sick."
"No." Ichigo said "I mean now that I think about it I did always have to throw up whenever you mentioned Shiro and the hospital. I guess we do have twin telepathy."
"Well of course when you were born you didn't stop crying until Shiro came out I even had to make you take naps together because you'd get upset if Shiro's eyes were closed too long."
"Oh you do love me." Shiro said with a smile.
"Shut up. Mom can we get off your boobs?"
"No."
"Masaki." Isshin said walking over yawning. "Let them go they're grown men and Shiro's fine." he yawned again.
Masaki reluctantly let go "Dad why are you so tired?" Ichigo asked.
"Went into work early this morning." he yawned again.
"I told you not to go in." Masaki said crossing her arms.
"Well if I didn't you'd be living on the street cause I pay the bills remember."
"Why do you always have to go there? You always say that like I've done nothing with our life together."
Shiro looked over at Ichigo while their parents argued. "I thought this was about us."
"It usually is about us and then its about them."
"I'm planning to do a video about this whole hospital thing, wanna come?"
"Let's go." Shiro grabbed Ichigo's hand and they ran upstairs.
"Hey...Shinji." Starrk said awkwardly.
Shinji smiled brightly. "Hi Coyote."
"What's going on there?" Shiro asked on their way up stairs.
"Give me a second." Ichigo said when they around the corner he spoke again. "Starrk saw Shinji's bare ass."
Shiro gasped and then said "Gasp, when?"
"Last night. Starrk made nachos discovered he couldn't eat them all so he figured Shinji would eat them so he goes to his room knocks opens the door and sees Shinji air drying." Shiro gasped again "That's not even the best part, so after seeing his ass Starrk stuttered like a virgin and ran into the wall."
"Nooo."
"Yes."
"You know what, operation get Roger the fuck up outta here is a go. I want Shinji to be with Starrk."
"Me too. Text Tosh let him know what's up."
"On it."Shiro said already sending the message. Shiro dragged Ichigo to his bedroom and sat on the bed he quickly grabbed his computer at the head of the bed. "This is going to be short. I'm not getting my camera I'm just gonna do the webcam thing." he turned on the computer setting up the computer camera. "Hello fans, I am here with my twin, Ichi, and I'm going to address the hospital thing. Um...I don't know how to say this."
"Just say it." Ichigo said grabbing Shiro's hand.
Shiro took a deep breath. "I am a victim of abuse I have been one for a long time. Today my ex-boyfriend kidnapped me and tried to kill me luckily he did not succeed which is why I was in the hospital. All the things that are coming out in the media about me getting in a car accident or in a fight or some crazy shit like that is not true, also I'm not dead clearly. As of right now I don't want to get into the abuse thing but tomorrow I will be talking about it on Rankigu's show and after that I'm willing to talk about abuse but only to help others. I don't want pity or anything like that I'm telling you because I want you, my fans, to know the truth and also so that everyone knows not to judge a book by its cover. Here I was pretending to be happy for show and telling everyone to love themselves when in reality I felt like shit more often than not. I will go way more in depth with this tomorrow but I just wanted you guys to know what's going on." he laid his head on Ichigo's shoulder then kissed his two fingers and turned it to the webcam. "Peace and love, Xcutioners." Shiro quickly posted the video on his youtube page.
"That was a good intro I know it's hard for you to talk about." Ichigo kissed the top of Shiro's head. "Come on let's go downstairs."
"I really don't wanna be hugged to death, you know all the mothers are coming."
"Think of it this was as soon as we get downstairs operation 'get Roger the fuck up outta here' is a go."
"Thanks for reminding me." They quickly got off Shiro's bed and made their way downstairs. "Shinji." Shiro said as soon as he got downstairs. He had a plan he was going to jinx Shinji, when the boys were younger they changed the rules of jinx so that whoever gets jinxed can either not talk until someone who was around for the jinx says their name or they can take a dare and if they pick dare they have to do it. "Did you and Ichi have any fun while you spent the night?"
"No, he won't let me." Shinji answered
"Why not. Because I have a boyfriend." Shiro said at the same time as Shinji. "Jinx. Now you can either take the jinx or take a dare."
Shinji crossed his arms and rolled his eyes. "Dare."
"I dare you to makeout with Starrk for 30 seconds."
Shinji gasped. "You what? I have a boyfriend."
"You can take the jinx."
Tosh leaned over to Ulquiorra on the couch. "The last person who took the jinx couldn't talk for 3 weeks, it was Renji."
"Fine, I'll take the dare." Shinji huffed. "Coyote!" he called Starrk who was in the kitchen.
Starrk walked out with a sandwich on a plate. "Yes, Blondie, how..." he was stunned when Shinji walked up to him and kissed him turning it into a french kiss quickly. Grimmjow walked past grabbing the plate before he dropped it when Starrk realized his hands were free he slid his hands down Shinji's back and squeezed his ass. Shinji wrapped his arms around Starrk's neck.
"Time's up." Shiro said breaking the two apart with a evil smirk.
"What just happened?" Starrk asked.
"I gotta go." Shinji said leaving the room quickly.
"You're not going to tell are you." Tosh asked Shinji.
"I'm not stupid." Shinji sneered
"Where's the boy?" Cecilia, Grimmjow's mother, said walking into the living room she quickly walked over to Shiro and hugged him to her breasts before he could do anything about it. "Are you okay?
"I'm fine." came the muffled reply.
"Mom." Grimmjow said trying to get her away from Shiro. "He has a mom you don't need to baby him."
"I'm just worried. Let me be worried." she pulled Shiro off of him. "Are you sure you're okay?"
Shiro nodded "I'm fine, thank you."
"Is your mother here?"
"Yes, she's in the kitchen."
Cecilia walked off into the kitchen. "I'm sorry." Grimmjow said.
"Oh there you are." Tina, Renji's mother, said bursting into the living room hugging Shiro tightly. "Are you okay?"
"I'm fine." he sighed "My mother is in the kitchen."
"Let me go talk to her." Tina left to go into the kitchen.
"Nnoi's mom is coming too." Grimmjow said
"Oh sweet baby." Rayna, Nnoitra's mother, said holding Shiro to her bosom.
"I'm fine. My mother is in the kitchen."
"I'll go talk to her." Rayna then went to the kitchen with the other mothers
"I really don't want to talk about all this hospital stuff today." Shiro said walking over to the couch and sitting down. "Gasp. I have an idea."
"What is it?" Toshiro asked
"Lets watch home videos. All our videos are on the cloud and we can watch them on the tv."
"That sounds like a great idea." Toshiro said
"I'll go get my computer you call everybody in here." Shiro hopped off the couch and ran up stairs.
Toshiro walked into the kitchen where the mothers, Shinji, and Nnoitra were everyone else, except Renji and Byakuya, were in the living room. "Hey, we're gonna watch home videos."
"Oh that sounds nice." Isshin said. Everyone stood and made their way to the living room. "Where are Renji and Byakuya?"
"Can you leave me alone?" Byakuya said to Renji walking in the living room. "I don't want to talk to you. I don't want to talk about it."
"But I'm ready to talk about it." Renji said grabbing his arm and turning him around.
"Just because you're ready doesn't mean I'm ready and at this point I'm done talking about it." Byakuya snatched his arm away he was on his way upstairs but he was stopped by Shiro coming down the stairs with his computer.
"We were going to watch home movies." he pouted to Byakuya so he'd stay.
"I guess I'll stay for that."
"Yay. Everybody find a spot on the couch." The mothers and Isshin sat down on the couch, Ulquiorra and Tosh shared the chair, Ichigo and Shinji shared the love seat and everyone else sat on the floor. Shiro turned on the tv quickly setting up the video he wanted to watch. "We're gonna watch the video of how this all started."
"We're gonna watch the birth video." Isshin said with a grin.
"Eww no. We're gonna watch Xcution's first concert."
Shiro sighed in the make-up chair that was backstage of Rangiku's talk show he wanted to get all his demons out and out of the way. Shiro was tired of holding everything inside and he needed to tell the world who he really was and today was the day to do it. Everyone was already out in the audience and for once he was alone he had time to think for himself and all he could think was 'where's my brother?'.
"Shiro." one of the Rangiku's executive producer called walking into the room. "Where about to start."
Shiro's heart stopped for a moment he took a deep breath. "Okay, I'm coming." he hopped off the chair and followed her out of the room and to the side of the stage waiting for his queue he had a small mic clipped on his shirt while he waited. He watched the producer count down from five and then the show started and Rangiku walked out, the audience clapped.
"Hello, everyone, good morning, good afternoon, and good evening cause no matter when you're watching I'm sure you'll be entertained." she opened the show as usual with her big smile and personality. "Today we have a very special episode, I'll be talking to a very good friend of mine, Shiro Kurosaki, we will be discussing the events that happened recently as well as the events leading up to it. As you know we rarely talk about things like this here but today its important." She walked over to the two accent chairs in the middle of the stage. "As of now I'd like to invite Shiro to the stage."
Shiro took a deep breath before walking out on stage. He smiled, waved, and blew kisses on his way through the middle of the audience and to his seat next to Rangiku. "Long time no see, beautiful." he said kissing both her cheeks and sitting down. "I'll never get tired of that." he laughed lightly.
"I don't think anyone will."
"So I'll just jump right into the story. A few weeks ago Ichigo and I were fighting and it got to the point where he didn't want to be around me anymore so he left, long story short, my mom found out about it -via Shinji because he's a snitch- and she wanted us to have lunch. I decided that I'd drive myself there even though I never know where I'm going and I have no sense of direction so of course I get lost. I pull into a gas station to ask for directions but I get distracted by the slushy machine, I put my slushy down for 5 seconds and the next thing I know I'm dizzy and passing out and the last thing I see is my ex."
"When you woke up were you scared?" Rangiku asked.
"Um kinda but that was because I was in a different place this is probably going to sound terrible but that wasn't the first time he kidnapped me its just the first time I did something about it." he could feel the tears in his eyes. "I'm crying already...great." he laughed a little. "Where was I..um..I woke up and looked around I saw my phone I grabbed it and called 911, I told them I didn't know where I was but I gave a name and then he came in. I remember already being on the floor I know he yanked my hair and all I really remember is him choking me and then everything went black. When I woke up in the hospital I thought to myself that I had been in a hospital bed too many times in my life and that I needed to do something about it so I pressed charges it turned out that he had planned on kidnapping me and taking me away somewhere so he's going to be in jail for a long time. And FYI they love me there I get letters from jail all the time."
"How long had all this been going on?"
Shiro sighed. "How old am I? 25. So 9 years of physical and emotional and verbal abuse from my ex."
"Really? I don't want to sound rude but to us you are" she pointed over to Ichigo. "- you two are- the epitome of happiness. All we ever hear from you is the fact that you're living your dream so to hear this is heartbreaking, I'm not going to say everyone loves you you're a little loud but you make it your duty to make sure the people around are happy and that your fans know happiness so it kills me to hear this has happened to you."
"Thank you, that makes me happy to hear you say that. Is that weird?"
"We'll talk about it after the break." Rangiku said when she got the signal from her producer that they'll be going to commercial. "So how are you? You know now that you're settling down." she said leaning in. "I have a sense you'll need a break from talking about all this."
Shiro chuckled. "Thanks. I'm fine I'm actually really happy to be sitting down for once."
"I wouldn't know that feeling, if I'm not working I'm working." she looked up when her producer signaled that they were going back on the air. "Alright, get ready."
"I am."
The audience started clapping again, Rangiku sat up straight and started talking. "Welcome back. I'm here with Shiro Kurosaki." the crowd clapped again. "So when did all of this start happening?"
"Well I actually have to start before that because it has a lot to do with why I spoke to him in the first place. Um when my parents found out they were having a baby they thought they were having one and they didn't know they were having twins until we were born it turned out that I was really small and was behind Ichigo. When I was born I was really sick my skin was really pale -it still is but it's better now-, my vocal cords were damaged so I wouldn't make any sound at all, and my immune system was really weak like the common cold could kill me. Because I was so sick I didn't leave my room until I was 5 and I didn't leave the house until I was 10 so I had no friends at all and then Red moved in across the street he was my first friend but I still didn't talk to anyone. As time went on I made friends aka my band but I've always felt alone and secluded and I always felt like I was a burden." he started crying again. "I always...Everybody always had to look out for me and it made me feel weak I hated being the weaker twin like my parents would always tell Ichi to look out for me and it always offended me cause it made me feel like they didn't believe I could care for myself.
"And on top of that I never felt like the cute one -and I know that sounds weird because I'm a twin and I'm so fabulous but its true - no one ever found me attractive and it hurt because Renji always had two or five or six or seven or eight people on his arm, Shinji was rarely without a boyfriend, Ichi had a long term boyfriend, and girls really liked Tosh."
"That's because he's so cute." Rangiku said waving at him in the audience.
Shiro laughed lightly. "See, everyone loves them but I've always been the odd one out so when a guys says 'hey cutie' at a football game after your friend with the fatty walks away you kind of fall really fast. We started dating right away and we would spend tons of time together everything was fine and dandy until 6 months in when one of our showcases went a little long and I missed a date so I met him at his house -he was 18 and had been living on his own since he was 16- when I got in the house he just started yelling at me and cursing me out and then out of no where he slapped me splitting my lip and told me that if I'm ever late again he'll kill me."
"Really?"
"Yup. He didn't hit me again until a month after that when band practice went a little long and then I began to notice that he hated my friends. Whenever I talked about being with them he'd get angry and say things like 'if you like them so much why don't you go be with them' and things like that and it sounded a lot like he thought we were having a big orgy or something. It was weird."
"That's crazy. And we will talk about it after this commercial break." she slouched a little. "So how's Renji?"
Shiro sighed, happy to be free of all that dirt on his heart and mind. "He's still annoying as always."
"Of course, my baby cousin has always been annoying that's why I pick on him. So I hear you're putting an album together with Espada, how's that going?"
"Surprisingly well, we haven't done anything for the album but living with them hasn't been all bad they party well."
"I was so upset when I missed your party they're always so fun."
"You missed a good one."
"They're all good." the commercial break was over and they were back on air again. "We're back. Shiro was talking about his tragic relationship, would you like to go on?"
"Not really but I should." he chuckled. "Um where was I..oh yes, after a while I learned how to not trigger him but that didn't mean the verbal and emotional abuse stopped. He used to tell me that nobody loves me and he'd say 'it doesn't matter how hard you cry nobody cares enough to save you', he'd also say 'you're never going to be famous because nobody cares about you' and 'don't nobody want you and don't nobody need you' since I already thought that about myself it was easier for him to keep me."
"You started touring after your senior year of high school, were you relieved?"
"Um yeah but when we came home we were tired of each other so when we came home we only spent time together when we were writing the album and then we'd go elsewhere the problem with that was everyone had other friends except me. So where did I end up going? To my abusive boyfriend's house because I make great choices. Um that only happened twice though because when I was 20 we no longer opened for people we were the show which was my dream so I was extremely happy and part of it was because I could finally get away from my ex."
"Where you ever afraid that he'd kill you?"
"I know this is going to sound horrible but no I wasn't I've never been afraid to die. When I was born there was a 50/50 chance that I wouldn't make it past a year old and that chance gets smaller and smaller as I get older. I always do it big for my birthday because I don't know if I'll have another one. Truth be told I've never been afraid that he'd kill me I just got tired of being beaten like a rag doll. When we were on tour non-stop I was relieved he couldn't hurt me but I still wasn't happy and I was still scared. He used to write me letters telling me he'd find me and kill me and all he ever did was threaten me through letters and social media there were times I would look over my shoulder hoping he wasn't there and there were other times where he'd show up in my hotel.
"When I finally pressed charges it was the best thing that I had ever done for myself. For once I feel like he's not coming to get me and it's the greatest feeling in the world. Can I tell you what upsets me the most?"
"What is it?"
"When people say 'Why didn't you call the police?' because when you call the police about domestic violence your abusive whoever doesn't go away unless they try to kill you. If I went into the audience and punched someone in the face and put them in the hospital I would get more jail time than my ex would get for slapping me around."
"I've heard that so many times before its so unfortunate that that's the way the world works." she looked directly in the camera. "More after the break." she looked at Shiro again. "Almost done."
Shiro took a deep relaxing breath. "I've needed this for a long time I'm happy to be talking about it and hopefully I'm helping people."
"Of course you are there are too many people going through this and today could possibly save someone's life."
"I surely hope so. I know I'll never be completely rid of all this but it feels good to let some of it go it's like a weight has been lifted off my shoulders. When I get home I'm going to write a song but before that I'm going to swim naked, my favorite passtime."
"I really have to come visit you guys." She looked at her producer and then back at Shiro. "Last one." she turned to the camera and the audience clapped. "We are back and Shiro is here talking about a very delicate topic in his life." she turned back to Shiro. "You know I have to ask, how did the two people being Zangestu thing start? We all saw you talk about it at that press conference -I don't know why you didn't come here but that's okay- and you said you were sick I'm gonna go ahead and say that's a lie."
Shiro laughed. "I don't know why we didn't talk about the twin thing here you gotta take that up with Byakuya, that's his job. And...Um...yeah, that was a lie..um what really happened was when we were 19 we were in New York and my ex did one of his pop ups the night before and you know what happen. Um I couldn't perform but I didn't want to let anyone down so Ichigo had to do it. The pop up thing only happened a few more times after that but the reason we kept it going is because we noticed the show was -I don't know how to say it- um the show was just better with the both of us. As a group we all like different types of music and as you know we've done different types of music its just that I perform rock better than other music and Ichigo is better at pop. I'm the better singer so I do all the ballads but Ichi has more energy so all the dance music was his forte. That's kind of all there is to it we all just felt that the fans got a better show and I love my fans."
"We know. Today I notice you two look different, why is that?"
"Truthfully, my skin is naturally extremely pale like almost white and so is my hair and when I started going to school the kids would make fun of me for it so I begged my mom the dye my hair orange to match Ichi's and I played outside extra long so I would get brown and when I got older I would spray tan so that we would match. Since we came out of the 'twin closet' I kinda realized that I should stop being someone that I'm not so I'm not longer Zangestu and I'm done dying my hair and I'm done getting a tan. For the first time I'm happy with me and I'm happy being me. The whole reason for Zangestu was because I wasn't happy with myself and I wanted to be someone else. Throughout my life I always felt disposable even before I met my ex I felt like I was a dime a dozen and no one really needed me and that I wasn't really special and Zangestu ended up being everything I wanted to be. Zangestu was happy and loved and confident and needed and one day I just realized that Zangestu wasn't a separate person we're not different we are the same Zangestu is Shiro and Shiro is Zangestu. Zangestu isn't what happens when Shiro and Ichigo become one he is who Shiro is on the inside and I want to thank my brother for realizing way before me that he was pretending to be me because I never knew." he blew Ichigo a kiss.
"Aww that's so sweet." Rangiku smiled at Shiro. "Before we go is there anything you want to say to those watching?"
"Yes. I just wanna say that somebody loves you, somebody wants you, somebody cares and even though you feel that there is no one there is someone. I want everyone to know that if something ever happened to you someone's world will stop and someone's world may never start again. Everyone needs to know that even if you don't know someone cares, someone cares about you. And even if everyone hates you in order to hate someone you would have to care at some point, you don't hate irrelevant people. Oh and I love you." he blew a kiss to the camera. "Now I'm done." the audience stood up and cheered.
"Can everyone go to the music room, please." Shiro said when everyone got home after the interview. "I have a song."
"Finally." Byakuya said "Can we change first? I have on my outside clothes."
"Okay in one hour we'll meet in the music room." Shiro said walking to the kitchen with Shinji and Ichigo.
One hour later everyone met up in the music room ready for Shiro's song. "I'm going to do something different this time" Shiro said "I'm not going to sing it until everything is how I want it. Now here's how it's gonna go. Red you're on guitar -I want a guitar solo don't fuck it up-, Tosh and Ulqui are on violins, Starrk you're on bass, Grimm you're on piano, Ichi and Shin you're doing back vocals, Bya you're listener, and Nnoi the drums are the heart of the band I've never trusted anyone else to play drums before -there was a guy before Tosh but none of us really liked him he was Renji's boyfriend but anyway -if you fuck this up I will kill you."
Nnoitra gave a mock salute. "Aye Aye captain."
After hours of perfecting what only Shiro could see he finally felt everything was perfect Shiro went up to his microphone ready to let everyone hear his song.
(Cold Case Love- Rihanna)
On my roof
Dark and I'm burning a rose
I don't need proof
I'm torn apart & you know
What you did to me was a crime
Cold Case Love
And I let you reach me one more time
But that's enough
Your love was breaking the law
But I needed a witness
So pick me up when it's over
It don't make any difference
Will it ever be solved
Or am I taking the fall
Truth was there all along
Tell me how did we miss it
We opened up a cold case love
And it got the best of us
And now prints, pictures & white outlines
Are all that's left at the scene of a crime
Of a cold case love
Should've investigated
But love blinded eyes
Couldn't see (no)
And then I tried to cage it
But your love ain't the kind you can keep
Release me now cause I did my time
Of this cold case love
My heart's no longer cold & confined
I've had enough
Your love was breaking the law
But I needed a witness
So pick me up when it's over
It don't make any difference
Will it ever be solved
Or am I taking the fall
Truth was there all along
Tell me how did we miss it
We opened up a cold case love
And it got the best of us
And now prints, pictures & white outlines
Are all that's left at the scene of a crime
Of a cold case love
We lost our way
Took this too far
Now I'll never find the pieces of my heart
We've lost enough
Looking for a truth
That was here all along
Cold case love
And it got the best of us
and now prints, pictures & white outlines
Are all that's left at the scene of a crime
Of a cold case love
We opened up a cold case love
And it got the best of us
and now prints, pictures & white outlines
Are all that's left at the scene of a crime
Of a cold case love
"It sounds perfect, Shiro." Byakuya said when the song was over. "I think I can add a little more to it in the studio but we got a hit."
"Yay." Shiro said clapping. "And we'll record it tomorrow because I am tired. Thanks everyone for putting up for my horrible directing. Goodnight."
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