Alari and Larel watched Hotaru walk away before looking at one another, Larel shrugged but when Mera spoke to him his eyes widened before he bowed and spoke remembering she had a point.
"Of course Mera-sama sorry for assuming," he said as she left before he turned and glared at Alari.
Alari sighed as he knew the blame for that was going to be his by the end of the day, the two walked alongside each other as Mera and Hotaru walked ahead, Alari knew he was next to him because Larel didn't trust him but the two rarely had a time to enjoy a brisk walk together, normally because Larel would have attacked him by now.
Larel watched Alari but he made a mental note not to go near Mera seeing the aura currently surrounding her, Alari let out a small sigh and rubbed the back of his neck as Mera and Hotaru spoke to one another, he happened to hear about the little cat and a small smile formed on his face causing Larel to look over at him.
"What's wrong with you?" Larel asked crossing his arms as Alari took a bite of his food.
"You enjoyed your youth today I'm happy to see it," Alari said. "It won't be there forever so enjoy it while you have it."
"Again I don't need to hear that from someone like you."
"I would've liked to enjoy myself a little more today....my alone time with Mera ruined..."
"Did you say something," Larel said his eyes narrowing at Alari as he cracked his knuckles.
"Nothing at all," Alari said finishing off his food. "Hotaru seemed happy I'm glad you two had a good time today."
Larel eyes widened a little at this caught a little off guard, he shrugged his shoulders turning his gaze away from him, Alari smiled a little at the response.
"I didn't really do anything..."
"Yes you did...you were yourself," Alari said nodding his head. "Making someone happy by being yourself that's a good thing Larel be proud of that."
"...what's with you today?" Larel said leaning away from him a bit. "You're creepier than usual."
"Don't call me creepy," Alari said removing his glasses as they got close to where the fireworks were.
When they reached the area where people were waiting for the fireworks Larel looked around at all the people gathered, some were sitting down and others stood next to each other, families, lovers, friends all talking to one another and waiting for the fireworks to start. 
Larel looked ahead as he heard a voice and noticed Eryn walk up to Mera and Hotaru, his eyebrows drew down a little seeing it but Eryn was a friend of Hotaru and a relative of Mera's he was pretty sure he had to be polite for both occasions.
Looking over at Alari he noticed he was looking at Eryn too, seeing the faint glow of his eyes he arched a brow but Alari put his glasses back on smiling a little.
"Family is interesting," he mumbled.
Larel wasn't sure what Alari meant by that and he decided it wasn't worth pursuing either, he watched Alari pulled out and wrote in the small book he kept on him.
"How long do the fireworks last Alari?" Larel asked causing Alari tap his chin with his book.
"There were a large number of them so expect them to last awhile, do you want them to be short?"
"Not really I don't mind if they last a bit."
"Oji-san!"
Alari started to respond to Larel but the two flinched as they picked up Kaori's voice, Alari turned only to have Kaori run into him and wrap his arms around his waist.
"Ah hello Kaori did you have fun?" Alari asked shutting his book.
Kaori stepped back and released him before nodding with a wide grin on his face, Alari reached forward and put his hand on his head returning a small smile.
"Good I'm glad you had fun," Alari said putting his book back in his kimono with his other hand.
The fox ran out of Kaori's kimono and over Alari's arm into the back of his, Alari removed his hand and looked over his shoulder as the fox popped out and let out a small yip.
"Seems like you had fun Jin."
Alari pet the fox's head before looking back over at Eryn hearing his and Mera's exchange about the cuffs, he chuckled a little at it as it had slipped his mind while they were together.
"I'm going to stand near Mera Larel, I promise I have no ill intent planned."
".........I doubt you don't but go on," Larel said obviously displeased at the idea. "Oh right here you go."
Larel dug in his sleeve and slammed his hand against Alari's chest, Alari blinked and grabbed the object as Larel moved his hand away, a small grotesque looking doll was in his hand.
It was hard to even call it a doll, the thing looked like the mix of half a human and a dead animal. It seemed like the doll had been torn apart due to it's appearance, put back together wrong, tossed in a fire after someone witnessed how it looked, saved from the fire and torn apart again only to be put back together. Once put back together someone tore it apart again and sewed it together wrong again just because it looked better only to fix it and offer it as a prize. The thing seemed more like an insult than a present, being handed the thing seemed like the equivalent of being told to 'go die and be reborn as this horrific looking doll'. It was hard not to feel bad for the creator of this doll, there was no way anyone thanked him for this, in fact he was probably killed for bringing something like this into the world.
Though the thing was an abomination...no that wasn't it, calling this thing an abomination was an insult to anything and anyone named as such...though the doll was...very very different from other dolls Alari smiled as he stared at it because he knew what it was underneath all that.
A gift.
"Thank you Larel," Alari said putting the doll in his kimono. "This is the second present you've ever given me."
"Huh?"
"Nothing just thanking you for it."
"Well it's not like I need it. The doll's horrible your horrible I felt like it would be best with something like you, speaking of horrible things here Kaori."
Larel tossed his fish at Kaori who caught it as he walked over and stood next to Hotaru, Kaori looked at the fish and smiled before looking at Alari.
"You should seal Zenmaru away more," he said jokingly.
"Tempting," Alari responded with a chuckle before walking over and standing next to Mera.
"I suppose I didn't quite earn it today," he said smiling a little bit. "I suppose we'll have to save it for another date."