[if that's an offer of pets, Tama-chan will gladly, though not so gracefully, accept. She is a fickle beast, though Kaoru is used to her being free with her affections by now, and allows her to stomp over him a little to get to Rin]

You had me a little worried, you know? Not about the whole blue flaming thing so much as how you were so torn up by...well, everything. Everyone. If...

[he hesitates, amends what he was about to say, and gets it all out in a rush before he can change his mind]

...I feel I could have done more for you and didn't... that's all. But you're doing better, right?