10 Clicks on a Shiro-Ichigo I-Pod

**The stripping idea in Ladies and Gentlemen was probably a subconscious manifestation of my obsession with Mistress Penelope's "Strawberry Bad Boy"-I highly suggest it if you like Grimm/Ichi.

20 Clicks on a Shiro-Ichigo I-pod

1. Someday- by Shinedown

Someday King, this will all end...And they won't even know my name. Somehow, if I'm honest I cannot feel ashamed. Maybe I was wrong to hold you up so high. Now I know I've lost you to the eventual peace and the feelings I kept inside. I don't know if it feels like I want you here, it's not the same as last time.

We're not on the same page, you don't even know me, will you even take the time? Someday, when it's over, will you even show your face here? Will you remember how I tried to take your place and choose to forget me? Or will you accept that my power is what brought you the ability to finally rest your sword, and forgive my discretion? Somehow it happened that I've grown attached to you, but you'll never feel the same. Someday, when this is over, will you even know my name?

2. How Far We've Come- by Matchbox 20

I'm waking up at the start of the end of the world and it feels just like every other morning before. Later today, we will invade the palace in the desert and I am walking to school like nothing has changed. I fake a smile for my friends so they won't even know, and tell them lies like their princess is safely waiting to come home.

The invasion will spark a war with our world as the battlefield, so I look around just to remind myself what I am fighting for-

"What the hell are you fighting for King? All I see are ungrateful humans who should learn to appreciate their world! Let me out to prove the insects aren't worth it! Their world is burning to the ground and yet they all pretend it isn't happening! Let me-

" "Quiet Shiro! Those around us now are my friends, and the next generation to change the world. I am doing this for them so we can set it right. Will you abandon your King now Horse?"

"...che like I could abandon ya...idiot King."


3. Camouflage- by Third Eye Blind

"Hey King? … King... King, King, King, Kin-"

"Holy hell WHAT!"

"About time, get in here. Your stupid rain turned into stupid white fuzz." As I enter my inner world, I see my hollow catching said 'fuzz' and can't help the laughing fit that ensues.

"Whats so damn funny? You tryin' ta play a prank on me asshole?" Shiro frowns at me as I come down from my high. I guess this is the first winter I've had him, so I explained the not so glorious aspect of the 'light fluffy version of rain'.

He smiles, "Then I guess the jokes on you king because when enough of this shit falls, I will have another battle advantage."

Without thinking, I decide to humor him "Oh, and what's that?"

He replies with that enlarged psycho grin, "Camouflage!"


4. Tragic Kingdom- by No Doubt

Look at them King! You fought, died, and won a war for these bastards, yet they banish you from their 'pure' society for fear of the 'monster inside'. Don't bother telling them that the 'monster' was their salvation, they are not worth your word or our protection. Let us also leave out the part where your soul is currently to weak to carry this body, and that I have been granted control simply to keep us alive.

Let them fight their own battles as they have for centuries before us. Leave them with their tragic kingdom of fools. What's that King? Need them? Need them! No, King you don't need them. You may not know it yet but your dreams are buried in my mind. I will bring them to realization and build us our own kingdom. I am all you need now.


5. The Pretender- by the Foo Fighters

I keep you in the dark, you know they all pretend. They say they accept me now because I was not given a choice when my hollowfication was obtained. Were the others given a choice? No! Yet they were meant to be executed.

I can't have them know that I would keep you, given I had the option. Though, when we fight sometimes my resolve to keep you in the dark almost crumbles...What if I say you're not like the others? What if I say you're not just another one of those things...am I a pretender? What if I say I'll never surrender! Your the voice inside my head, the one that I refuse to hear...You fight me to be free, to let them know that I am your King and they cannot take me from you. Understand though that I cannot let you win. They can never know that I accepted you as my own. I guess in the end we all pretend.


6. Christmas in Sarajevo (instrumental)- by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra

Finally, here he stands before me and I am about ready to fall to his sword. I hear you, screaming in my head to be free and something about a new transformation. Can I trust you though? What will you do to my friends? Do they stand a better chance against Aizen, or trusting your word that you will not kill them? How could I have let this happen! This bastard is going to destroy everything! I cannot die here...I promised to protect them... "Shirosaki,"
"Time is of the essence king..."
"Swear to me th-"
"Damnit king, I won't hurt your pathetic friends. Now give me control before he kills you and destroys your precious town!"
As I slip into the darkness, I feel my body begin to change. Aizen has frozen in place, that bastard has no idea that he doesn't stand a chance against this, my creature of hell.


7. Kiss from a Rose- by Seal

I remember it clearly...For so long I felt alone, chained deep in a sea of black. As ironic as this is, and I am not sure when it happened, you became the light on the dark side of me. Your life slowly became my high and not my goal. I hate the rain king.

Did you know that when it rains, my eyes become large and the light that you shine can't be seen. You are like a growing addiction that I cannot deny. I don't understand it, but the more I get of you the stranger I feel. It seems that I am your power, and you are my pleasure, my king. I have been brought to life by you king, you are the light that hit the gloom on my black grave.


8. Ladies And Gentlemen- by Saliva

I hear your song start and look up from my position at the bar drink in hand. As the lights on the floor dim, the black lights on your stage brighten.

"Ladies and Gentlemen please,
Would you bring your attention to me,
For a feast for your eyes to see,
An explosion of catastrophe,
Like nothing you've ever seen before
Watch closely as I open this door,
Your jaws will be on the floor,
After this you'll be begging for more..."

I watch you confidently take the stage, and I quickly scan the crowd around me to see the shocked faces of new customers, and the lust filled faces of those who've returned. Your snow white skin and hair glow dangerously bright, and you strut down the stage knowing you look like an exotic being from another realm. You smile at the crowd, men and women waving countless bills and you haven't even begun undressing yet...Correction, an unbelievably Sexy, exotic being from another realm. Staying with the song, you stop and bow-

"Welcome to the show,
Please come inside,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Boom!..."

With the 'boom' the song picks up and I realize that I have begun salivating, knowing what comes next. You effortlessly slide the black jacket down your arms, revealing nothing underneath and exposing more of that sinful, glowing skin.

"Boom! Do you want it,
Boom! Do you need it,
Boom! Let me hear it,
Ladies and Gentlemen..."

The crowd complies, screaming and throwing money in the direction of the stage, some so over-excited that they fail to realize that they actually missed it. You are topless and teasing, somehow managing to take suggestive dancing and make it gracefully appetizing at the same time. As the number of wadded bills gracing the stage grows, you reach lower and tease at the zipper on your black leather clad legs.

"Ladies and Gentlemen good evening,
You've seen that seeing is believing,
Your ears and your eyes will be bleeding,
Please check to see if you're still breathing,
Hold tight 'cause the show is not over,
If you will please move in closer,
You're about to be bowled over,
By the wonders you are about to behold here..."

Here it comes, the crowd goes wild as you slowly tug the zipper down, one clasp at a time. Those who have seen this particular show before, know very well that the pants are set to drop at the next 'boom,' so I wait with baited breath and clasp my drink like it is the sole thing connecting me to the real world.

"Welcome to the show,
Please come inside,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Boom! Do you want it,
Boom! Do you need it,
Boom! Let me hear it,
Ladies and Gentlemen..."

As I expected, when the nearly illegal strategically, torn black leather finally came off to reveal skin tight, lace up the front, black leather boy shorts, I briefly wondered if I would return home hearing impaired. Well one thing is for sure, Ogihci was definitely returning home loaded, if the growing pile of cash was any indication.

As I watched him continue the dance, I remembered the time I asked him about his stage name... "Well Ichigo, I figured it was fittin' considering you're the one I think of when I'm up...pun intended." He replied smirking evilly with that mischievous glint in his eyes. I laughed at the memory, earning me a strange look from the man who just screamed "take the rest off" sitting next to me. Apparently he thought I was laughing at him...good, asshole.

As the music died down, Shiro sashayed off the stage with the cash he accumulated throughout the dance. I decided to make my retreat and head home. By the time Shiro gets there, I should be set up to give him a little private show of his own.

****obviously, I cheated the time frame with this one...any complaints?


9. January Friend- by The Goo Goo Dolls

Every time you come here to fight me, you reach for higher ground. Go ahead and reach King, you will soon find that the power I have is limitless. Know that when your willpower slips, for that is the only way you hold me back, I will take control and you will be mine Boy! Yes! I love the way you look when you scream out loud.

Lust, pain, its all the same to me but you know that. You call me cold, heartless and that's absolutely fine with me King. I am cold, I am also underhanded...do you know that? Hmmm...lets find out. "I may be cold, but I am your friend King. I'm cold like January but I will always be here for you King!...Your January friend?" No? Apparently you are on to my underhandedness too...Damn!


10. Psycho- by Puddle of Mudd

Maybe I'm the one who is the schizophrenic psycho...I mean my hollow is really what I would have become had the process been completed, right? So instead he is a fraction of my soul, like Zangetsu...I guess that would be why he called himself by the swords name the last time we fought. But I know that they can appear separately too. Perhaps I should name him.

"Stuck in your idiocy King?" ...Scratch that, the bastard doesn't need a name.
"Hey hollow, you are what I would have become if the hollowfication process had been completed right?"
"Actually King, I am what WE would have become. I did not just appear out of nowhere stupid. I was a part of this soul too!"
"I have a hard time believing that there was ever any part of me that is as crazy as you."
"You say that King, but you are currently in your head, talking to yourself and getting a response. I am pretty sure that a psychologist would classify that as crazy."
"...You know that makes you crazy too?"
"Don't worry about me King, I am currently in the process of trying to kill off my other personality."
Yes, that bastard definitely does not get a name.