Disclaimer: I don't own Bleach
Chapter 4: Mashiro
Slight Kensei/Mashiro, if you squint you can see it.
She couldn't understand why Kensei kept giving her those weird looks whenever she did the things that she normally did. It was a strange mixture of frustration and gloom, something she couldn't quite place- then again, she had always been horrible at reading expressions. But he kept looking at her strange, especially when she mentioned Soul Society or people from their former division. She couldn't understand why he ignored her when she tried to be helpful, rather than yell at her like he usually did. It really confused her.
She couldn't understand why everyone was so surprised when she was the first to master her "inner hollow" as they have come to name it; she had run around with her new mask on for fourteen hours straight, and the others had stared at her with another strange combination of emotions she couldn't recognize- a combination of shock, wonder, and sadness.
She just couldn't understand why everyone was so sad.