[To be fair there's twigs and leaves stuck in Minato's hair, and it's thick enough that the blue birds might have mistook it for a nest... That's beside the point though, as Shiho's jealousy flies completely over Minato's head and four of the birds start chirping for no reason.]

They'd have tried eating me by now if they wanted to...what I'm really worried about is that they could attract monsters that would want to do so. [There's an emphasis on 'would', and he does have a few light bruises and blood stains on the sword that imply something already tried that and failed.]