2nd Arrow [Broadcast Mind]
"You have no talent for it."
The words sting, but you brush them off. You know he's speaking nonsense, why else would Sensei train you?
Hollow screams. White cloth covered in blood. But you couldn't hear anything over the screams of a child.
Angry words, the slamming of doors, an ultimatum. You don't remember the exact words, but do you need to?
Hopelessness, you try to run, you're not powerless even if you're without the abilities that had shaped your life up until this point. The ones that you had made it a point to shove in Kurosaki's face. The Pride you have in being a Quincy.
Until he shows up to show you how powerless you really are. Even before you went to Soul Society. Another ultimatum, one you're already looking for loopholes in even as you agree to it.
You don't know how long you've spent in that underground chamber, dodging arrows, running as if you're very life depended on it (which, at the time, you thought it had) and flinging spells and Ginto left and right, some part of you still in disbelief that your own father (even if you hadn't called the man that in years) would be doing this to you, only to be shown in the end how soft you really are.
Because as much as you deny it, in the end, he's still your father, and you're still that young child seeking approval, even though you know he will never give it to you.