comments/spoilers: during the Soul Society arc, up to the Ichigo vs. Byakuya fight.
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And it isn't soft like sakura petals, he thinks: not that it would ever be so, but he just thinks it odd how Kuchiki Byakuya, the 6th Division Captain, cuts flesh with sakura petals--
-- and he's wondering this just as his own flesh is singed. He can't know why, not that he doesn't try.
Afterwards, he sees: here and there. All he knows is that Byakuya may be far off from gazing in contemplation at a cherry blossom tree, but the potential of the vision to Ichigo shows something, in the very least, of the Kuchiki leader, more than the hardened eyes and a hint of what perhaps may be called surprise-- and, the scattering of lovely petals in the distance shows to him a hint of pain and a tinge of sorrow inflicting upon the captain. It is only the deep throated longevity of the sorrow that cuts Ichigo deeper than the petals. For Ichigo, Byakuya is a mere speck of absolute pride in a world where those don't exist for him.
This is to this, Ichigo thinks to himself-- yet there can be too much of it there in a family, he feels. Not that he doesn't care for his own in the very least, no, far from it. Just so he can understand the nobility's familial bonds that seem so different from his own.
Just so.