[It's never just normal pollen. Aak doesn't consider himself a plant expert or anything like that but plants are still very near and dear to his profession. He had gone to collect some earlier and was smart enough to cover his own face but... he's covered in fur... Unsuspecting people who latched onto his fluffy tail inhaled it indirectly and now the set has a huge problem.]

[This is fine, he can fix it!]

[... no, not by banging everyone, he's got enough pollen he can probably figure out an antidote. And if someone doesn't wanna wait then they can go find someone else to bang. By the time Aak has something ready to test, some time has already elapsed. The people who started with two hours are now down to a single hour.]

[Minato has likely taken note of some of the panic around set. The production staff are worried about people with his symptoms. They're less worried about him, though, because a pet rock is really hard to identify symptoms in anyways. He's left to blearily sit around set until a little furry vector of disease is right in front of him.]

Hehe, looks like we're moving our medicine test ahead of schedule!

[Yes, instead of any of the people who were infected via snuggling his tail, that was technically his fault, he's gravitating to Minato for testing first. Doesn't he feel special?]

How long you been sweatin? [he pushes Minato's iconic bangs out of his face to view the pallid complexion beneath] Apparently this stuff kills pretty quick!