"I'm getting angry!"

Startled, Hisagi looked up from his soul cutter to stare at the captain of the Second Division who was glaring at him, fuming. Vaguely he wondered why she was snapping at him (and he had to move his stare somewhere else, because an enraged Soifon-taicho was a beautiful sight and he didn't want to get distracted) and then decided she wasn't snapping at him, she was most probably just getting annoyed over some kind of inconsistence in her squad (and she hated inconsistencies).

"What are you talking about?" he asked and returned to glaring at his sword and trying to drone off the voice in his head.

"I'm talking about you! And look at me while I'm talking!" startled yet again, the man looked up to see an angry Soifon once again. He blinked.

'So apparently she had been talking about me.'

"What about me?"

"What do you think?" she snorted, then lowered her head close to him, "Get off your ass and at least try to achieve Bankai. You're so annoying."

He sighed internally. He should have seen it coming: she had one of those anger spurts from time to time and she always lectured about not achieving Bankai and generally his lack of feelings toward the spirit of his soul cutter.

But she didn't understand the depth of Kazeshini's cruelty: that thing wanted only death. It was too bloodlusty.

"I'm not going to get close to that brutal spirit of mine," he started explaining for the nth time," even if it means I'll receive more power. Just the thought of talking with that thing is bad enough," he cringed at the mental image.

She scowled at him.

"Have you ever thought that probably, just probably, Kazeshini is that cruel because he is neglected by his master?"

Flabbergasted, he looked up to her eyes, then down to his sword.

"How so?"

"Like a child, who is ignored by its parent" she snorted at him and her expression got a sardonic undertone. He tried not to imagine himself as the father of the spirit of his blade, "Kazeshini might be like this because he hasn't been given attention. And with this cruelty of his, he can be trying to get your attention."

Kazeshini was laughing his head off in his mind as Hisagi tried to get his mind around the idea. It seemed very improbable.

'She has weird ideas,' Kazeshini whispered in his mind, with a laughing tone but something seemed off. Hisagi wondered what.

"You make him seem even stranger than usual," he grinned at the woman, as the spirit protested in his mind.

Once again she made a face, then probably willed herself to get calm.

"Stranger or not," she snapped at him, "You wouldn't understand unless you communicate with your soul cutter more," and with those words she pulled him up to a standing position and shooed him toward the door.

"Now find a quiet place and at least try."

'Quite pushy she is,' he wasn't sure whether this thought was his or Kazeshini's.

Hmm, I had forgotten about this xD