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Summary: When Renji speaks, Sado listens. What Renji teaches, Sado has already learned. 100 word drabble. Some spoilers for recent manga chapters.

Sado will never admit it, but he is pleased that Urahara chose Abarai Renji as a substitute trainer. When Renji speaks, Sado listens. There is an understanding, a shared purpose. He could not ask for a better source of strength.

Because when Sado looks into Renji's eyes, he can tell that his focus is far away, centered on a petite female shinigami with large, haunted eyes.

And he knows that if Renji ever took the time to look, his own gaze is fixed on an exuberant girl with hairclips for weapons and a seemingly unpleasant boy with bright orange hair.