[Minato doesn't need comforting words, at least. He knows what happened, and why. He knows that he should've been able to prevent it (somehow, somehow, he's the leader, that's what they're supposed to do), and he knows that not being able to prevent it was a failing that all of them committed.

...He just shakes his head, and offers Akira a very weak smile.]

She loved him.

[So of course she was willing to give her life for him. That much... in a way, makes perfect sense to Minato, in a strange sort of eerie clarity.]

...We'll recover. We'll keep moving forward. [Somehow, even if they don't have a purpose anymore... and even if they've suffered more losses lately than they know what to do with.] But... I hope that your dangerous ploy will keep you safe now.

[He doesn't want to come back to news of Akira really being killed.]