[The question was enough to make him laugh, his memories of his learning days were fraught with disaster. He was still convinced he had only really gotten decent at barriers and healing was because he had so much hands on learning thanks to Akemi and Setsura.]

I was a terrible student, and I was very upset that my talents lied in something I thought was lame at the time.

[He settled back on the palms of his hands, rueful.]

I skipped class whenever I could. It took my friends being in danger for me to start to take my studies more seriously. I'm glad I don't have to have that sort of talk with you.