Kushina makes a noise that's part fury and part disappointment. "No," she says, softly, but Urahara's face is set, and she steps back, face twisting. "Kisuke he's not-he's a kid!"
"In a few years he'll be our best chance against Aizen, Kushina, i'm sorry-"
"Don't," Kushina whispers. "Just don't." she stalks past him, slamming her shoulder against his hard enough to bruise. "I'm going to train. Don't show your face around me unless you want me to carve it up."
Urahara doesn't stop her, and she's grateful, but before she can slam the door behind her he says, "Kushina."
She pauses, but doesn't turn around.
"You're not going to listen to me, are you?"
"What do you think, 'ttebane."
Then, she's gone.
For the entire week leading up to her second meeting with Ichigo, Kushina doesn't leave the training grounds. Much to her equal exasperation and relief, Urahara doesn't show his face around her in fear of her going through with her threat, and Tessai and Ururu are the only ones brave enough to leave her food.
Kushina is a hurricane of a woman on a good day, but she's a completely different kind of natural disaster when she's in a bad mood.
(Bad mood, Kushina scoffs, try completely and utterly pissed .
Child weapons for the greater good? Kushina doesn't have time or patience for that bullshit. You shouldn't rely on someone who has no business in your problems to fix them. Children should not have to fight and kill just because someone said it's their duty.
Kushina is full of rage and fire and something like a void in her soul sparks a familiar red hot anger and it's like coming home. This anger is familiar-familiar like a zanpakuto is to it's shinigami, and Kushina didn't even know she missed it.
She wants to burn the Soul Society to the ground for what they're going to do.
Or just the asshole that's the puppet master, but Kushina has never been too good at keeping collateral damage to a minimum. She's destruction in its rawest form, a whirlpool of fire that leads with her fists and doesn't quite know how to lose.
At this rate, maybe Aizen should be more scared of the red haired woman than Ichigo himself.
Kushina has no problem going after the fucker while he's still playing the good guy, after all.)