Nerve
Nerve noun - Shameless boldness.
Trust
Trust noun - Firm belief in the integrity, ability, effectiveness, or genuineness of someone or something.
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Trust us, we went through hell and back to find a good SFW image for this article.Rito Yuuki is a hapless high school teenager who's hopelessly in love with the shy, gentle Haruna Sairenji, but just can't work up the nerve to confess his feelings.
Source: Manga / To Love-Ru - This starts really coming down hard on him in the second half of the series when he can't work up the nerve to tell Barnaby he's retiring, or the reasons behind it, and Barnaby takes it as a sign that he doesn't trust him.
Source: Fatal Flaw -
Embers. Katara's season three rage over Zuko getting Aang mostly-killed after she'd started to trust him is transposed into a season one homicidal fury that Zuko is of the Fire Nation and has the nerve to be a better healer than she is.
Source: Ron the Death Eater
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