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"H... hello? Um, this is me-- ah, Noire! I'm Noire, and I'm very sorry for missing you somehow... I promise I'm not avoiding you, unless you're scary or you're Mo-- trying to curse me. U-um, so when I can figure out how to-- ( beeps ensue, followed by a shriek of fright ) O-oh, no! What did I push, how do I-- make it-- oh gods, did I break it?! W-why can't we just talk in person?!"

[ BEEP. ]

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That's probably because you're always looking out for everyone else.

... But I don't think it's wrong to have other people look out for you when you need it. I think it's the least I can do, honestly.

...I'm glad you're here to look out for me, Noire. Thank you.

[Ah... Look, he's accepting it without argument. Hinata might've grown, a bit.]

[ ... He really has, but that's just flustering her.

Except rather than squeak and ask him not to thank her because gods, she takes a deep breath. ]

You're important. If I can, I'd like to be there as much as I can for you.

Yeah.

You're here right now. That means a lot.

[It does. Even more so with what happened, he... it's a little childish, he thinks, but he's glad to know that his friends are here for him.]

Well, you did call me... it's not as though I could stay away after that.

That's true... But I think I knew that when I did call, a little bit. I'm being sort of selfish today.

... What's so selfish about it? [ no really, she doesn't get why he'd think that.

Even though Noire herself always felt bad for craving company when she was miserable. ]

For...just wanting friends around me. Without thinking about if they've got things they need to do or places they need to be...

[Hence...yeah. A little selfish, he thinks.]

Hinata... do you remember when I called you at an entirely troublesome hour at night and you wouldn't let me be alone? Or when you came out when I got stuck on the stairs? Or when M... I thought I killed my mother, and you didn't leave my side? Or the time I got sick and you stayed with me until I fell asleep?

O-- Of course I remember. I couldn't forget anything like that.

After all of that... and after telling me so many things that must have been incredibly painful for you, do you really think there's anything I'd find more pressing than being there if you needed me?

Being needed at all, beyond my temper or my magical potential, or things like that... there's no way I could find that troubling.

Noire...

[Hinata flushes a little, more than he's already flushed.] Yeah, I... Mm... [He leans in then and drops his forehead down against her shoulder, hiding his face.]

[ ... Well, at least she's gotten to know him well enough to additionally know whether he's not feeling well, or whether he's just embarrassed. It makes her smile, warmly-- even if he won't see it. ]

I thought I should try speaking my mind, like you suggested.

...You spoke it really well.

[Mumble. His ears are hot. But did you have to pick me...]

I wasn't scared to... not with you, anyway.

[ but-- ] Hinata, your ears are red.

[I think that I'm happy about that, but I can't look at her...]

I can't make them be less red...

... That was too much, wasn't it?

No, it's not that, just...

[He'll lift his face before he gets her shoulder like wet or anything. Stupid eyes.] I mean, I'm glad that you think that.

[ Like she'd mind. ]

... But you're still embarrassed.

I'm still not used to hearing that sort of stuff yet... so yeah.

[AND Noire is one of the few who speaks so earnestly about that to him. A-and he wasn't expecting it.]

S-sorry... I'll try to be more subtle next time?

[ she can do subtle!! ]

Subtle...? Will you?

[He thinks he can handle that... probably... but.] Ah, I don't want to discourage you from being honest and speaking your mind, though...

Well, I'm used to being tactful, so I don't say the wrong thing and infuriate anyone... so it shouldn't be that hard. And it's still... mostly honesty.

Mostly honesty, huh... Well, okay. Give it your best shot, Noire.

N-not right now, though... that sort of took a lot out of me.

[ stupidly frail? Stupidly frail. ]

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