[Gift] Sweet Mochi Date

By time the fireworks show had wrapped up, Varrik was pressing kisses on Ione's neck and their shoulder causing them to sigh softly as they leaned back against his chest.
"Varrik?"
"Mmmhm"
"Varrik?"
"Mmhm?"
"Varrik." Varrik blinked at that snappy tone and glanced up at Ione's miffed eyes then a small amused smile curved on his face and Ione rolled their eyes with a soft sigh.
"I'm hungry." They stated plainly before yelping as Varrik scooped them up into his arms with a wide grin. Ione scowled only to fluster when Varrik's lips landed on their ears then all over the top of their head. When Varrik pulled back, Ione's cheeks were rather pink and he adjusted his hold on them so Ione was cradled in one arm much to their preference.
"Sheeesh!" Varrik knew that Ione wasn't angry or too annoyed as they were not shy about vocalizing their opinions. Besides, the muscular gluttony knew that Ione rather liked his physical affection. His legs easily carried them away from the area in hunt of some excellent mochi to gorge on for the night. Through Varrik had a feeling that Ione's social battery was starting to run low and perhaps they should retire to one of their residences. They were never the one for socialization plus their cafe had been busy nearly the entire day. Just to prove his point, Ione yawned softly and Varrik glanced up at that. Ione shook their head and Varrik kept going until he reached a stall that sold a variety of mochi: Dan's Dango.

The prideful doll glanced up when Varrik approached only to pause at the sight of Ione in his arms. Now that was a rare sight for Ione to be carried around like that. Dan watched with mild amusement as the two gluttonies had a battle of wills before Varrik finally conceded and let Ione down with a kiss on top of their head. Dan cleared his throat as the pair approached his display.

"I see you have some offerings with coffee filling." Ione observed while lightly smacking Varrik's hand away from the mochi much to Dan's mild amusement.
"We do. Shibani really loved those and insisted I sell them tonight." Ione nodded
"We'll take a box of those, and a box of-"
"Everything. Two boxes each." Varrik interrupted and Ione smacked their forehead as Dan huffed out a quiet laugh.
"I'm carrying them all, Varrik." Ione grumbled "And you're paying."
Dan chuckled lightly as he got to setting up boxes of red bean, black sesame, strawberry, matcha, mitarashi, blueberry, yuzu, ube, cocoa, watermelon, peach and raspberry. Plus special flavours such as coffee, strawberry matcha, sesame and red bean, raspberry and blueberry, coffee and cocoa, and strawberry and cocoa.
Luckily for them, Dan was clever enough to put the boxes into a rather sturdy bag and handed them over to Ione who kept them away from Varrik's hands.
"I want to eat those at home." Ione stated plainly and Varrik conceded.
"Besides, if we take those to your place, the others are likely going to steal those." Ione added, and Varrik knew they were likely right. He did however order two boxes of mixed flavours for Viscili to hand over in the morning.
Dave offered a wave as the pair left his stall for Ione's place. He had a feeling that there would likely be no mochi left in the morning. A pair of gluttony dolls? Please.

Thanks to both Varrik and Ione being rather tall at over six feet in height, they reached Ione's place of residence in no time and Varrik unlocked the front door so Ione could carry the boxes to the dining room. The moment the boxes were set down, Ione was immediately being dragged into Varrik's lap and their neck and shoulder attacked in flurry of kisses.
"You're demanding tonight." They observed as Varrik hummed. Ione gasped in surprise when Varrik gently pulled down their sweater to expose their shoulder before leaning back against him with a soft sigh as his fangs lightly nipped along their shoulder.
".......This was not the definition of hungry I had in mind." they sighed in amusement as Varrik huffed against their shoulder. Ione was turned in his lap to face him and they immediately pushed against his chest as Varrik leaned in closer to their pinkening face.
"Not this either!" Ione chuckled. "The mochi, you silly glutton."
"But you are a Snack."
"Varrik!" Ione protested with another chuckle. Laughing, Varrik reached behind them to grab a box from the bag and opened it to reveal the strawberry flavour. Ione's checks were now matching the shade of the pink mochi that was now in front of their face.

Ione ended up getting handfed several mochi before insisting Varrik have some for himself and that was how they spent their evening.