Chapter 21: The Interview Part II.

That was all he had to say? His hair got LONGER?!...Well it does seem to have increased in lengt-SHIRO KUROSAKI YOU IDIOT!

"So you are admitting that you are in a homosexual relationship with your superior Kurosaki-san?" The interviewer asked trying desperately to hold back a grin of victory. She just got in from the producer through her earpiece that their ratings are increasing beyond their usual shows.

"You say that like it's a crime." Shiro accuses her with a strained smile. He hates with everything in him judgmental pricks that like to make people feel like outcasts.

"I don't mean anything by it I assure you. I'm just wondering because how do your fellow co-workers feel about it? Does it make them uncomfortable? No offense but I know I would. There's just something...strange about it. I'm sorry but in my opinion, it's a little disgusting." She tries fishing out more. An office romance with a rising celebrity is just too juicy to pass up also if she can get one of them riled up enough to throw a fit even better.

Shiro actually looked kinda hurt at that and even the audience booed at her words. Shiro gave the audience a small smile to try reassuring them it was no big deal.

Ulquiorra snapped immediately that woman made Shiro sad in any way.

"Your opinions have little meaning in that part of our lives Miss." Ulquiorra cut in coldly as he glared at the woman already done with the entire charade. He only agreed to the entire thing as long as they asked questions about the business not his fucking personal life. He allowed it at first then the bitch actually went to say that Shiro was disgusting? Let's just say the bitch is lucky there aren't weapons around.

Ran 'Tao shrank back at the way Ulquiorra had looked at her. It was filled with so much hatred and more disgust than a human being should be capable of giving. She had never felt so degraded in all her life and it was all from just one look.

"I apologize if I find it pointless to dwell on other people's lives and how their relationships work just because it is the most interesting thing happening in your lives which is sad and beyond pathetic. I am not some pop idol. I use my brains to achieve what I want. I came here to talk about our new car coming out soon which Mr. Kurosaki had a hand in the mechanics of it himself not to share my personal life with a bunch of females and a sleazy interviewer that's well past her prime, lonely and also a washed up journalist trying to get a life she will never achieve. Well in my opinion, you are nothing but trash." He said while boring into Ran 'Tao's eyes, making sure that every word hit home. From the few tears at the corner of her eyes he'd say they did.

Then he faced the audience as well as the cameras. "I am Ulquiorra Cifer. Nephew of Mr. Chlodwig Jaegerjaquez. I can honestly tell you that I do not really have the energy to pretend to care about your opinions involved with the nature of my relationship with anyone. If that affects your opinions in purchasing all your basic necessities, latest fashion and trends from Espada then so be it. It would be a very ignorant and rather pretentious choice but I accept it. If that is all I hope you all have a wonderful day." Ulquiorra said with a strong voice that screamed 'POLITICIAN' and left the stage without sparing a glance to the shocked faces around him, but he did hear Shiro's loud laugh as he left.

That was a success as far as he's concerned.

Shiro laughed at everyone's stupefied expressions. He was shocked as well but he just didn't think Ulquiorra would say such a thing in front of so many people.

Shiro stopped laughing and got up as well, his high ponytail now reaching farther below his knee. "A man after my own heart." He gushed out jokingly as he grinned like a schoolboy to the camera and said as he left the stage as well;

"ULQUISHIRO all the way!~ Learn it! Love it! Ship it!"

"WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?!" Hal screamed an hour and a half after they got to the backstage. A bunch of the crew and Shiro cringed at the volume while Ulquiorra merely rolled his pretty emerald eyes at his secretary.

"I had no idea that she would pull something like that Mrs. Starrk. Aren't you the one that usually informs me of anything in the media that involves me? I can say this is partly your fault." Ulquiorra said doing something as childish as blaming someone else for his mistakes while making it sound like he was some kind of lawyer. That took skill.

"And Shiro what was that last comment? UlquiShiro? Really?!" Hal asked the albino who had started cowering behind Ulquiorra because he could deal with her wrath better than he could.

Ulquiorra looked up at him with a confused expression, wondering why Shiro had conjoined their names like that.

"C'mon Hal it was just to get them fan girls going. Ship names are a thing. There's Destiel, NaruSasu, NaruHina, and now begins the rise of UlquiShiro. It will be a glorious ship!" Shiro exclaims with his hands in the air and mumbling dramatic music to himself.

Ulquiorra never thought he could get even more ridiculous. He had to be proven wrong apparently.

"You are a strange person Kurosaki." Ulquiorra sighed but he had a calm expression on his face because Shiro seemed to have recovered from that witch's hurtful words.

Shiro smiled down at him. "Well duh, it's what attracted you to me." He even added the wiggling of his eyebrows which made the side of Ulquiorra's lips twitch as he looked up at Shiro as well, both of them completely forgetting where they were or who was around them. Hell they even forgot they had a very pissed off Halibel in front of them.

"Of course. It certainly wasn't your brains." Ulquiorra teased back which made Shiro laugh softly. He liked it when Ulquiorra was like that, subtly playful and an air of calm around him. It allowed him to know that he was with the real Ulquiorra, the one they were both discovering.

"There's my looks too." Shiro pointed out jokingly. Ulquiorra made a humming sound in affirmation, not feeling like going on with the teasing because Shiro was looking right into his eyes and for some reason he couldn't breath for a moment.

"SAVE IT FOR LATER!" Hal yelled ruining the moment.

Shiro pouted in disappointment while Ulquiorra settled for glaring at Hal, promising torture which just made her roll her eyes. Seriously it was just one date. One would look at them and think they've been together for at least a year and haven't gone past the honeymoon phase.

"What is the big deal Hal? Ulqui made it pretty clear. We make cars not music." Shiro whined, just wanting to go home and have breakfast-for-dinner night with his baby brother.

"The big deal is that I've been getting calls from all over asking, well some begged, to have you both doing so many things like appearing in shoots or ads or hell TV shows! I am not your damn agent or publicist! What the hell is all this?! You practically destroyed a well known interviewer and magazine on live television and for some reason the single fact that you two are dating makes you some kind of rising celebrities?! Your uncle is practically destroying his phone with all the calls he's getting, Rangiku wants to use the both of you in her oncoming clothing line and I'm getting calls from America! AMERICA ULQUIORRA!" She screamed in their stunned faces.

They had no idea that that would be the outcome of the little interview that was only supposed to take thirty minutes.

There was silence for a while, the only sounds being Hal's heavy panting as she stared at the two with anger and panic in her eyes.

"Maybe it's our looks?" Shiro tries to add but his response made Ulquiorra and Hal sweatdrop.

"What...did my uncle say?" Ulquiorra asked the most important, well to him anyways, question at the moment.

Hal took a deep breath and answered calmly. "He wishes to speak to you. He's in Germany right now and he says he'll be back on Friday. He sounded calm Ulquiorra. He's never that calm."

And then Ulquiorra, with a hand on his forehead, proceeded to say a sentence that he would've never let out of his mind in public;

"Fuck my life."

"Language!"

"Shut up Shiro."

Somewhere else in Japan, in a luxurious mansion that screamed power, money and influence, was Aizen in his living room but with a shattered glass of wine on the floor in front of his television.

The man himself stood over the mess with a look one could only describe as murderous. He had paused the TV on the part where Shiro was smiling at Ulquiorra who was giving him all his attention.

Attention he barely gave me. I practically had to grovel for him to look at me!

Aizen shook off the look and replaced it with his usual calm expression. He even chuckled. Ulquiorra was just being curious, there was just no possibility of him leaving someone of Aizen's status for some lowly street trash like the freak of an albino. All Aizen had to do was open his eyes to the mistake Shiro Kurosaki really is for his life and even his career if anything from the show was to say. The man was a pest, but alas he was also his competition. Aizen most definitely hated losing.

"Shiro Kurosaki. Let the games begin."

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This is kinda a filler chapter so yeah it's kinda short. Sorry.

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