[He pulls Akira close, forcibly steadying himself. He can be a rock. They'll both do better this way.]

Don't have to handle it. ...Don't want you to.

[Akira is the one who'd been unwilling. He promised not to beat himself up over it. Minato is holding him to that. But that doesn't mean it's okay for him to just....have to watch someone identical to him attack someone else.]