Obsessions

"You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself. You learn to watch other people, but never watch yourself because you strive against loneliness. If you read a book, or shuffle a deck of cards, or care for a dog, you are avoiding yourself. The abhorrence of loneliness is as natural as wanting to live at all. If it were otherwise, men would have never bothered to make an alphabet, nor to have fashioned words out of what were only animal sounds, nor to have to crossed countries- each man to see what the other looks like."

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"You never told me what it was that made you strong and what is was that made you weak." The heavy silence had just been broken, the sound of the gears ticking on the clock were finally registering in his brain. And finally he composed something that seemed appropriate.

"Nothing, I simply believe if you are capable of being weak, nothing can make you strong again. Once weak an object has no choice but to fail and break. As to strength, you don't need it to do sufficient work, you don't need something for a task, just a simple order to follow." He sounded like a robot, no emotion, just a fact, secured to their mind. Nothing he said had emotional meaning. They were just words, being used for literary meaning, they held no value.

The girl quickly scribbled, executing the words onto paper just as they were said. As she did that she held a look on her face that showed her concentration but also the analysis of the things he had just said. The slowed and came to a halt, and her expression relaxed, a smile formed on her lips. "How funny, you seem to be just like a robot."

Her humor wasn't humor, more insulting than anything he could ever find humorous. Politics, that was something he had found humorous, two sides fighting to better and just to win, but this was not hilarious.

Nonetheless, the girl laughed. What was her name...? Inoue? Yes, Inoue Orihime, Senior, age seventeen, excellent grades, and perfect photojournalism skills. Along with her natural ability to do sports and her other club activities. Yes that was who she was.

"Are we done now?" he asked dryly, he had work that had to be attended to. Orihime's laughter slowly died down, but she continued to smile. "Of course, I just need a photo." and something about the bland look he was giving her made her giggle.

"Don't worry I won't ask you to smile, just start attending to what you have to, it makes it natural, which is so much better than anything!" The beaming look she had only made him sigh. He merely opened a folder and grabbed his pen. Reading and marking out things that were prohibited or just adding notes.

When he glanced up to check on her, she a big digital camera out and was adjusting its focus. And there in her lap sat a folder with the words; "Our Student Council President: Cifer, Ulquiorra." neatly written in a girly script, which held no interest. Again he returned his attention back to his work. 'Schooltrips... bothersome. Toomuchmoneyandtimeputintothem.' he thought to himself.

The sound of the shutter could be heard and it went off two more times, Orihime's giggles could be heard once again, breaking his focus. A quick glimpse up, showed him her smile as she admired the photos she had just taken, pride radiating off of her like a heater in winter. It stirred something in him.

"You're so wonderfully photogenic!" The flavorless expression he gave her, still seemed to make her giggle, which was extremely odd. Orihime quickly gathered her things, standing up and bowing. "Thank you for your time Cifer-Senpai!" he gave her a rather pathetic nod and she smiled, turning on her heel and quickly exiting.

He let out a loud sigh before speaking his thoughts out loud; "Inoue Orihime... What a nettlesome women you are."

"We'vegotourObsessions."

Notes/

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