If Benihime could have thought of a proper counter to the fact that something less negative was still negative, she definitely would have said it. But alas she had nothing, not even something to fill the silence of the man's constantly widening eyes. 'I should say something...' she thought. 'Maybe make a joke about his eyes popping out of his head...' the sentences came out of her head as she watched this young man approach her, while putting his sword away. 'Yep, that's what I'll do...' she opened her mouth to speak as the young man stopped in front of her, but she couldn't say anything. Instead his outstretched arms and general closeness weren't something she could well do anything about. 'Say something, damnit.' she said to herself but she couldn't force any more words to come out, instead a tear fell from her right eye. If was as if she'd gone mute and soon enough she took the necessary step forward and into the man's outstretched arms, partly to hide her tears, but there were other reasons. Because she'd been numb to this entire situation, with her life in danger. Immediately after, she'd tried not to think about it. She put it off while she was at Saya's Dojo, so she could feel like she was a grown up and it was okay, so she could be angry at the hollows. But it really wasn't all of it. She was all alone in this world, and though she didn't have much fondness for her family on most occasions, she couldn't help but feeling emptiness at the thought of them no longer being part of her life.