Title: Maturity
Genre: General
Rating: T (for language)
Word count: 194
Note: Written in something like two minutes at two in the morning before a Bleach marathon.
Ichigo supposed he must've had a lower level of maturity and independence than his friends.
Ishida, Chad and Inoue all lived on their own.
Sure, Tatsuki had parents, but she'd been the one who wanted those karate lessons way back, and besides nothing out there could do much damage to her after those.
Mizuiro was too busy staying with his girlfriends, and denying that he called his mother to be called immature.
Keigo lived with his family, though Ichigo was fairly sure that was his sister most of the time.
Even Rukia and Renji, though they lived in the company of others, in the company of family, had a greater sense of maturity and independence.
Rukia had the whole fucking Kuchiki estate to wander. Renji went off to get pissed every Friday night.
So maybe they were Shinigami and a hundred or so years older than him.
So maybe Chad and Inoue did have no family to take them in and Ishida had no family who wanted to take him in.
So maybe Keigo and Mizuiro were irresponsible sometimes, maybe Tatsuki was strong enough to defend herself.
Ichigo still wouldn't have left his family.
