[He set the chopsticks down, his stomach doing too many flip-flops at this point to really keep an appetite. He slouched with his elbows on his knees.]

It ain't complicated, damn it!

[Kanji paused, clamped his mouth shut a moment, and tried again once he calmed himself down. His eyes turned to the food, making no move to look up from the spread.]

...I-I dunno. Maybe it is. 's just this thing I've had a while. I don't wanna bottle it up. A man's gotta be up front about how he feels, but... this person's hard to read sometimes. What if I screw up what we got, th-this person says no, then they don't wanna be friends anymore?