Soi Fon and Byakuya
Challenge
They stared at each other from across the room, and Byakuya placed his pen down with a refined click that few had ever been able to perfect and which, in secret, Abarai had been practising.
"Is there any reason you are here, Captain?"
Soi Fon stared levelly at him along the line of her zanpakuto, which was pointed unwaveringly at his face, only inches from his skin.
Her voice was deliberate.
"I am here to issue a challenge."
Byakuya's eyebrow quirked. This was not what he had expected her to say, although he should not really have been all that surprised- the one who had taught her had always been able to surprise him, although that was a great many years ago now.
"Oh? Is there a particular reason?"
"Because my former captain saw a great deal of worth in you, and I want to find it too."
"Why?"
Soi Fon opened the door, and without quite realising that he was doing so, the other Captain stood to his feet.
"I do not need to respond to that."
Byakuya followed her outside, his voice little more than a whisper.
"So, I see you miss her, too."
If she heard, she made no comment.