Like that. [Minato sighs softly, weariness drifting slowly onto him like mist, but he's relieved to see that Kaz isn't overreacting to his simple request as he has a point to make about what looks for all the world like a simple handshake.]
You didn't lose control. [He's blunt and a bit wry about that.] Whatever you are or people think you are, you'll always be Kaz to me. [And that explains the handshake- he's not going to judge people for giving Kaz looks as their fear was just as valid as Kaz's own fear of people judging him, and in the end it didn't matter what people thought of his friend: Kaz is Kaz, and he never has to fear anything as long as he remembers that.]
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You didn't lose control. [He's blunt and a bit wry about that.] Whatever you are or people think you are, you'll always be Kaz to me. [And that explains the handshake- he's not going to judge people for giving Kaz looks as their fear was just as valid as Kaz's own fear of people judging him, and in the end it didn't matter what people thought of his friend: Kaz is Kaz, and he never has to fear anything as long as he remembers that.]