Seeing Minato's cold response to her questions only made her own insides knot up painfully. He responded the very way she wished she could, but...that just wasn't her way.

"I..." How could she ever word this in a way he would hear her, really hear what she has to say? "I don't know how to say this, and you probably won't believe me, but..."

She reached up, clenching a fist against her chest in order to contain her fear. She usually wasn't the one setting herself to be vulnerable like this. Every time she'd stuck her neck out before, she was confident the outcome would be positive.

Please, Minato...this is already so hard for the both of them...didn't he owe it to himself to find some reason to all this? "I think we might be...linked somehow. Not like a Social Link," Or were they? "But...I mean. We've gone through almost the exact same things. Right down to Ryoji-kun and Nyx..."

It meant you aren't alone in this, Minato. Not really. Though she doesn't expect him to grasp it right away. As much as she hoped he would.