Kurosaki Masaki was quite warm toward Ichigo's friends. After all, while she had been soaking in the cultivation tank, Kurosaki Isshin had told her many things about Kurosaki Ichigo.
While she was happy about her son's growth, Masaki was also quite relieved that Ichigo had made so many friends who could share life and death with him.
"You must be Uryu. Compared to your father, you resemble your mother more.
"Perhaps your father hid this from you, but you should actually call me Cousin Aunt, because your father, Ishida Ryuken, and I are cousins.
"And you and Ichigo should count as brothers too."
Ichigo & Uryu: (Д)"
Chad & Orihime: (_;
With the bombshell Kurosaki Masaki had suddenly dropped, Kurosaki Ichigo and Ishida Uryu were both utterly stunned.
Only then did Kurosaki Ichigo belatedly recall that when Masaki had helped him earlier, the techniques she had used seemed identical to the ones Ishida Uryu normally used.
He had been so overwhelmed by surprise and joy earlier that he had completely forgotten about it.
So, in other words, his mother, Kurosaki Masaki, was actually a Quincy?!
But that raised another question. Since his mother was a Quincy, and judging from the strength she had just displayed, she was clearly no weakling.
Why had she been killed nine years ago while protecting him from such a low-level Hollow?
Ichigo was full of doubts, but he knew this was not the right occasion to ask such questions.
When he heard Kurosaki Masaki mention his own mother, Ishida Uryu's face also showed a trace of sorrow.
Much like Ichigo, his mother, Katagiri Hanae, had been equally important to him. In fact, the reason he had fallen out with his father, Ishida Ryuken, was because of his mother.
"Uryu, do you think I was the