[He's not used to this affection from Jin, but the contact helps. He can't pretend that it's easy to see them after watching them die in a thousand different ways.]

[And since they're so close together he reaches out to Minato, too... and when he makes contact he starts crying. He's glad they're alive, glad they're not going crazy, glad they're not hurting.]

S... sorry... sorry I couldn't...

[He was the one who couldn't move, couldn't help them. But this hurts, being at the whims of someone else, someone with more control than you, someone who is probably watching all of them whenever they can.]

[It's an aggravating feeling, and he starts to whimper from the sheer unfairness.]