[It'd be interesting to spar with Kashuu, Sousei thinks; interesting in the way that sparring with a human, even an Okita Souji, wouldn't be. Kashuu is a sword, after all. That's entirely different.

Another thought to pursue another time, especially because he thinks he's being mothered by said sword.

What.]

...I can take care of myself. I will handle it.

[He'll at least stretch out properly now that it's pretty clear Kashuu's not going to let him pick up his sword again, even as he watches Kashuu work; it's quiet and unobtrusive and out of the way, so that should be fine. Hardheaded as he can be, he's not as bad as the Shinsengumi, okay.]

I would have stopped before things reached that point regardless. [And, more quietly--] It was not working anyway.