*The question, given so freely and with as much emotion as he'd ever heard in Raidou's voice, gave him great pause. He was struck into silence for a good minute.* I...

I didn't want you to but I was afraid because...I mean...this wasn't supposed to happen. Having you be my friend and my partner has made me...happy. Now I've ruined it... *He needed Raidou as like none before. Not even in any sort of romantic way, but because Raidou had shown him another way to be and to even consider oneself in the place of the world and to show he deserved to exist and to strive. To fear that his feelings would throw that all away was truly terrifying.*