She was too comfortable with bothering him. Just like someone else he knew. Just his luck.

Looking away again, he put his attention to the red-head pointed out earlier. That one would be easy to remember, looking as he did. Kurogane remembered what had been mentioned in Rukia's explanation and how Renji had needed to knock Fai out as well. If Rukia was Renji's friend, then he was probably used to dealing with the same things as Kurogane was.

"He's a Shinigami too, right?" he said, remembering that he'd intended to ask about Shinigami at some point. It was an odd way of bringing it up though.