Of course, in all fairness, Hitsugaya was not difficult to annoy. But he seemed to be a magnet for people who would even get on the nerves of the more tolerant. He'd really prefer if someone else would get those opponents for a change.

"He wanted to fight me because I was seeing through his virtual clones better than anyone else. As for the monologuing . . ."

He took a moment to pop into the kitchen and pour himself a glass of water. He'd been here enough times that he felt comfortable enough to do something like this without asking. And he didn't see the point in making someone do something he could easily do himself.

He came back into the living room. "He'd already been talking, and he'd let something slip that could distract him further. So I brought it up to deliberately piss him off."

The simple phrase, 'You were abandoned by your parents' was what had really won the fight for him. Any rational thought Yukio had been in possession of before that had been gone.