"I suppose stable duty is better than farming duty. Being out in the sun for hours, getting scolded by Kunihiro for getting so muddy when you had to prove to the children you weren't afraid of getting dirty..."

He says children as he he wasn't pretty much the youngest sword in the whole citadel... Not to mention those were pretty much only his experiences. Kunihiro didn't scold everyone out there.... probably. Well Maybe he scolded the rest of the shinsengumi swords, but that's because he was their mother.