"Well maybe I would have to worry," Ichigo says, and he can't help but smile a bit. Kindness will do that to a kid. "But I'll do my best to keep up, if you'd really let me give it a shot. If I can understand you and have a book of English in front of me, I can't see a reason I wouldn't be able to try."

Besides, it might be good for him to have some kind of consistent human contact. His fear of hurting people has had the unwanted side effect of making him a very lonely young man, and even the company of two children and their mother would be great right about now.