Vash, honestly, hadn't expected Akito to be ready - but, never one to pass by good things (such as a person actually remembering he'd said six), the Stampede grinned wider, backtracking until there was a reasonable distance between the two. "Unfortunately, it has been. Sorry about the wait," So he was somewhat sheepish and imaginably 'chided' about that fact, but not too bad. With just a quick glance, it was obvious Akito was fine - nothing too bad could've happened while he'd been... distracted, right?
Words never hurt, though, and with their introductions done, the subject was a bit sketchy. "How have you been, too, this past week~?" The curse had been favorable to some and not to others, the gunman had found - and even if nothing psychically bad had happened, the aftermath wasn't always pretty. It had to be a good idea to just quickly straighten out how Akito (or, by extension, Agito, though Vash was still unsure how their 'link' worked) was.