It was as if she could just control his current state of mind, really. When the touch lightened, he almost succeeded in thinking straight. "Ah, y-yes the rice, we ahould--augh!"
okay no, the rice just left his mind completely when those nails all but punctured skin. "Hnn... Tenten..." he was very much lost in some very, very happy place right now, that on hand at her ear acting as a lifeline.

...he really should worry about the rice, but.. was it a minute and a half, or two minutes? Or... closer to three...?