That's how it usually happens, isn't it? You know, the first time I really talked to Akira, I didn't like him too much either. We'd known each other, but I didn't seriously start talking to him until after he and Ichigo got first. And Ichigo was my friend first, so I thought everything was Akira's fault. But after talking with him a bit, I realized it wasn't that. It was just Ichigo being a dumbass.

[And Akira being a dumbass too tbh]