User blog comment:Godisme/belIEve/@comment-1429792-20111123133731/@comment-893506-20111123155817

You've got a good point about this, as while others have pointed out that it's actually the potential mistrust or the fact that they don't trust Ichigo (at least to the same degree he trusts them). Like I said earlier, it might still be awhile before we learn everything behind Kugo's motivations for fighting against the Soul Society, but the mistrust he was indicating on Soul Society's part at least foreshadows something about it. We still don't know how deep his connections to the Soul Society went before he left them, so like you said, some of us are jumping the gun a bit on Kugo's motivations for abandoning his position as Substitute Shinigami.