[Natsume feels embarrassed for the way his heartbeat quickens at that brief contact, the touch of chroma sending another spark of comforting warmth through him.]

It isn't awful knowing such THINGS. Even though we have both been treated as gods and villains at the end of it all we're still humans with HEARTS, are we NOT? It's difficult to avoid that instinctive need for compANY.

[His fingers squeeze Wataru's gently.]

And besIDES, you should know that I would go as far as I could to help you if you askED, Wataru-niisan.