[Naoki closes his eyes too, just for a moment, reaching up and finding her cheek with a blind touch, touching carefully and softly. It's half to reassure her that she is, indeed, still there, he's here.]

You already knew that...it scared me, too. Not just-- because it was happening to me, but because it was happening to you. And there was nothing I could do.

[It's probably not shocking, that his fear would stem from worry about someone else.]