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Naida, who had been sitting with her younger aunts and uncles (she was a big girl she argued she could sit with them). Nearly bounced on her tail when she saw Shiro go up, she liked sticking around him a lot, and she loved to listen to his music.

Now that the music so far hadn't been nice, but still, this looked interesting. At least she hoped that was the case. Him going up took her attention away from what she was helping Miyu with.

Lore couldn't help but chuckle at that, he knew of course about that since he was there when Kaito and Shiro grew. It had been quite a surprise to realize the two were twins, it had always been assumed previous to this that Shiro was the older of the two.

Shiro cleared his throat and fidgeted with his fingers.

"I knew my brother hadn't gone anywhere by himself," he continued, "I knew he would never leave me by myself, not by choice. I knew someone had to have taken him. Of course, I never imagined he'd been taken home by someone as kind as Kaa-san."

He grinned at Elnara.

"Finding Kaito back, being taken in by Kaa-san, I felt for the first time that I was part of a real family. I had a mother, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, a grandmother, grandfather, great aunts and uncles ... well, just look around you, and you'll all see what I mean. I lacked nothing, nothing at all, not even a father, though I had none. Father not in name, not truly, but in acts, in thoughts, in a relationship ... Lore, you've always been a father figure to me, as I know you were to the rest of my siblings."

He turned and spoke softly to Ura, who ran down and grabbed his and Shiro's wineglasses from the table before returning to Shiro and handing his to him.

"And now," Shiro concluded, smiling brightly at Lore and Elnara and holding up his wineglass, "I have a mother and a father, not only in act, but in name. A toast to the newly wed couple - may your lives be long, happy, and may you never be lonely."

He raised his glass and motioned for everyone else to do the same.

Elnara's eyes had misted over, and she picked up her glass and turned to Lore, smiling widely, her eyes shining as she looked at him.

Elnara touched her glass to Lore's gently, then lifted it to her lips and took a small drink. She wasn't quite sure how many speeches there would be coming, or how long the meal would last, but she didn't want to have too much wine, despite the fact that it didn't affect her or her kind.

It would affect her children however, and she hoped they would be responsible about their drinking.

Shiro touched his glass to Ura's and drank a bit of his wine, then set it down and opened his violin case. He took out his violin (which he had tuned earlier) and put it to his shoulder, smiling out at everyone.

"And this is a song that I wrote especially for this occasion," he smiled warmly. "It's one that no one has heard before - even those who listen to me practice quite often - and Ura has been kind enough to offer to sing along with me."

He nodded at Ura, then lifted his bow and began to play. It was a soft, pretty tune, growing lively in some parts, and very emotional in others, and after a bit Ura joined in with singing, his voice deep and powerful, moving to listen to. It lasted a few minutes, and then Shiro played on while Ura grew silent, finishing with a flourish. When it was all over, the two of them smiled at each other, and then Shiro knelt to put his violin and bow back into their case.

Elnara giggled softly to Lore. "That was beautiful," she murmured softly to him, clapping her hands in applause along with everyone else.

Elnara looked at Lore curiously. "Sheet music?" she asked him in a tone that clearly showed she didn't know what he meant.

Shiro and Ura headed back to sit at their table just as the second course of the meal was brought out.

"Excellent," Ura grinned cattily, beginning to eat right away.

Shiro tucked his violin back under the table safely before picking up his own utensils and beginning to eat. He smiled a little shyly at the others.

"That wasn't so bad," he said softly, "considering it was the first time I've really played for an audience ... besides Naida and Jair."

Lore nodded, "I only play a bit of flute, and while the music was written for violin, if a person had a copy of the music sheet they could rewrite it for another instrument," he paused and realized he hadn't explained what it was.

He thought about it for a bit before continuing.

"The music sheet is a series of lines and dots.. dots called notes that if known how it is read can tell you how to play the music. I don't know if Shiro wrote it down or not, with his memory he might not need to, but I'd like to know how it goes... for the future."

Lore blushed a bit, he did still tend to forget to say things about his personal life every once in a while and this happened to be one of them it seemed.

"Yes," he murmured quietly, "I guess I still do have surprises up my sleeve."

He smiled a bit as he looked to see Serenity and Jair there, he wondered the little merboy had thought up.

"I don't think so," Lore murmured holding her hand up.

He chuckled a bit, he could hear the people around them. It was a sweet people, and he knew what Jair meant, though he wondered who told him. Lore leaned forward to kiss Elnara, with a sprinkle of blushing across his cheeks.