Wait--so none of these belonged to her? His glanced from Rukia to the tame Chocobo. She must have spent her downtime playing with the birds instead of trying to find one of her own, clearly.

"Define fun."

Still, he had followed her to get a better look at the things so Ichigo walked a little closer to the bird she was petting and hesitantly brought up his own hand to pet it. He tried not to be awkward about it but to be fair it was the first time he was going to pet a giant bird so he was focused on the task at hand.