There's a reason his bangs are always out the way they are; even if he tried to keep them back, they simply wouldn't stay. Eventually, he'd grown accustomed to them being there, though telling Naruto such would mean she would take her hand away, and he wasn't possessed of quite as much control as that. Instead, his hand rises against her back, just gently touching his fingertips to the hair covering the back of her neck. "...Thank you," he says finally, for lack of anything better. "I do not mind, should you choose to do so."

Because it was always a good idea to make something like that clear, right?