Kotori's Pov |

As I started to clean up the house,since I had the day off of work, I saw Umi-chan's car drive into the drive way.
I peeked out from the window,pulling the curtains to the side to see better and saw my beautiful girlfriend getting out of her car.
I watched her get out of her car and noticed one thing.
She was talking to herself.
Every time something serious or something that made Umi-chan upset she always talked to herself to calm down or to feel less upset.
I moved away from the windowsill and unlocked the front door throwing it wide open and walking outside to see Umi-chan meeting my gaze.
I smiled warmly and walked over to her and hugged her tightly.
"welcome home Umi-chan! You're off early... I'm happy Mama let you go early.." I smiled and so did Umi-chan but it seemed like it quickly faded away after I planted a kiss on her cheek.

"I am too Kotori-chan... Really happy..." I felt Umi-chan mutter and her hands grabbed mine. The touch of Umi-chains hands was always so warm... I wish she could hold my hand forever...

Her beautiful brown eyes started to look into mine causing my heart to nearly die.
I felt her hand grip mine and I quickly looked down at them then back at her.
"Umi-chan... Is something wrong..?" I began to worry, her actions were starting to seem really odd and I couldn't help but to ask her.

It felt like Umi-chan just put on a mask right after that question. Her weird expression went away and it seemed like the mask hid everything. She just smiled and let go of my hands.
"No sweetie nothing's wrong.. I'm just really exhausted, that's why I mostly came home early since I told them I wasn't feeling well "

I sighed and grabbed Umi-chan's hand again and walked inside. I glanced back at her once or twice and saw her stare down at the ground,completely blank of an expression.
As we entered the house, Umi-chan headed to the bedroom.
I was about to continue cleaning up the house but then I heard-

"Kotori... Can you come with me into the room... I wanna lay down with you... "

I glanced back to see Umi-chan leaning against the the door of the room blushing slightly.

After this whole time I've been with Umi-chan I never have once heard her sound needy... It was usually me...

"Can you wait Umi-chan? I wanted to clean up the kitchen and the-" I was cut off by Umi-chan starting to unbutton her long sleeve blouse. I could see her navy blue bra on under, and i swear I saw Umi-chan biting her lip looking at me.

Of course I gave in and quickly walked to her smiling.

I felt her arms wrap around my waist, and then I felt her pull me into the room.
I giggled playfully seeing that Umi was actually the first to be the dominant one.
As her brown eyes looked into mine, I felt lost in them.

Out of nowhere I snapped out of her gaze by a reminder. Umi-chan never has done this before. She never was needy. She never wanted to just do it out of nowhere. She wasn't that type of per-

My train of thought got caught off by a tingling feeling on my neck. I glanced down and saw umi-chan starting to kiss along it.

I closed my eyes tightly and let a faint weak moan escape my lips.
I could feel Umi-chains hands lower and then raise me up to her waist. It was an instinct for me to wrap my legs around her so I wouldn't fall. Every kiss planted on my neck by Umi-chan made me squirm. My neck was one of the most sensitive part on my body and of course Umi-chan knew that.

Right when i wanted to pull away, Umi-chan placed me on the bed and began to take off my shirt and then my pants. I shivered feeling her hands brush past my bare skin, her touch was so delicate it felt unreal.

All those thoughts of before seemed to slip my mind as Umi-chan began to kiss me on the lips. The feeling of her soft lips against mine... It was so good I wish I could never stop kissing them...

"Kotori..." Umi-chan mumbled under the gap for breath during the kiss.

I gasp for breath and then replied "yes umi-chan~"

Her lips departed from mine causing me to become upset. But then it became silent. All I could hear was mine and Umi-chains breathing still out of breath from seconds ago.

"I love you..." Her tone of voice seemed serious and it made my cheeks light up.

I looked up at her blushing deeply and sat up a little.
"Umi-chan.."

"I love you so much Kotori.. Remember that..." Before I could even reply, Umi-chan once again crashed her lips upon mine. My mind began to go blank as the kiss deepened. I tried to continue to worry about why Umi-chan told me to remember to know she loved me. I know she loves me. I knew she loved me ever since high school. I will never forget that umi-chan loves me... That what keeps me going in this world, knowing that my loved one loves me...

Nishikino Maki's Mansion|

The black haired girl rolled over to the side and reached her arm out and moved it around feeling nothing there.
She opened her eyes and noticed her girlfriend was nowhere on her bed and sat up rubbing her eyes and yawning now fully awake.

"Maki-channnnn!" She whined getting out of bed. Nico quickly wrapped a robe around her fragile small body and head downstairs still whining as she walked down
"Makiiii-channnnnnnn whereeee areeee youuuuuuu" Nico still sounded tried in her tone.

The crimson haired girl quickly closed a photo album and lifted up her cup of coffee and pretended like she was just watching tv after hearing her girlfriends voice.

"I-I'm down stairs Nico-chan... I just woke up early..." A faint blush appeared on her cheeks.

Nico rubbed her eyes with her hand as she got down stairs. Then walked over to her girlfriend,sitting down next to her on the couch.
"Why did you wake up so early Maki-chann... I wanted to sleep in today..."

Maki smiled, placing her coffee back down onto the coffee table and placed her hand on Nico's cheek
"Well if you wanted to sleep in you could have Nico-chan..."
Her thumb slowly rubbed against Nico's cheek,making Nico start to blush from her sudden touch.

"I-it's okay...I couldn't sleep in knowing Maki-chan wasn't there in bed with me now..."

Maki blushed at Nico's words and leaned forward planting her lips on hers and kissing her, quickly pulling away.
"You know I won't always be in bed besides you... Like some of my job days I'll be leaving at 3 in the morning or even not coming home at all cause of over time..." Her voice cracked a little at the ending of her sentence and she looked down remembering what her boss told them what they have to do.

Nico frowned but quickly shook her head showing a smile and raised her index finger up
"I know that! I'm the amazing Idol Nico-chan. I will be able to handle it. But... I will miss you while you are gone at work Maki-chan.." She put both of her hands on her girlfriends cheeks and made her raise her head and look into her red eyes.

"And of course I will be here waiting for my wonderful/beautiful girlfriend to return home and come back into my arms after a long day ..."
Nico moved her hands off of makis cheek and spread her arms out, showing it was an open invitation for a hug.

The purple orbs of maki's eyes glistened a little surprised at how cute her lover just exposed herself and nearly tackled her in a hug.
"Nico-chan... WHY DO YOU HAVE TO BE THE CUTEST THING ON EARTH!"

The short black haired girl squirmed feeling like she was being squished and yelled out
"Maki-chan! LET ME GO YOU ARE HUGGING ME TO DEATH!"

The crimson haired girl hugged Nico even tighter and whispered into her ear lovingly
"I love you too damn much to let go of you..."

Nico blushed heavily and shivered feeling Maki's hand go under her robe.

"M-maki-chan..." Nico giggled feeling kisses go against her neck

"I love you too dummy..."

Eli's One Story House | 3 hours later, 9:30

Eli fixed her blouse and rubbed off some lint from her skirt and fixed her hair putting it into a ponytail. As she looked at herself she frowned knowing she would have to leave her loved one for gods know how long.

Her eyes moved to the reflection of her bedroom door opening and seeing her violet haired girlfriend walking in smiling at her.

"You look really nice today Elichi..." Nozomi leaned against the dresser and looked at Eli still having that amazing loving smile upon her lips.

The blonde turned to Nozomi and faintly smiled fixing her button on her blouse one more time but stopped feeling a hand go on top of hers as she was doing the action.

"Elichi... Something is off... I can sense it.." Nozomi leaned forward and hotly whispered in her ear

"You better tell me what's going on...or I'll make you late to work..."

Eli's eyes widen and she felt a button come undone from her blouse and notice it was by Nozomi.
Her turquoise eyes looked into Eli's blue orbs and didn't even look away wanting to know what is up.

Eli blushed at Nozomis actions but tried to act serious as possible.
"Nothing is going on at all Nozomi. I'm perfectly fine. Everything's just fine. Work is just...cutting into my time that I can be with you.. "

Nozomi sighed and buttoned up the button she undone.
"Okay... I believe you Elichi... It's just...that thing at your office yesterday...made me start to worry about you...your glow...was gone..."

Eli looked at Nozomi amazed knowing that she could tell how she felt.

"Nozomi..."

The green orbs of Nozomis opened seeing she was saying what she was on her mind and scratched the back of her head
"O-oh sorry... I was speaking my mind...anyways... Are Umi or Maki picking you up?"

The blonde put a hand through her hair sighed out annoyed
"Yes they are. So I have to be going sooner than I usually do... I'm sorry Nozomi... "

A gentle hand caressed Eli's face causing her to blush and calm down as she got sucked into Nozomis eyes once again. Before she could say anything Nozomi planted a light soft kiss on Eli's lips.

The soft lips of Nozomis made Eli nearly forget everything of what was going through her mind. An after the kiss ended in seconds she started to relax a bit.

"Now there's my Elichi... I'm still gonna be here when you come back so relax sweetie..." The gentle voice of Nozomis made Eli smile.

A ring made them both look at there dresser. Maki's ringtone went off and just hearing it made Eli's stomach drop. She didn't want to leave her loved one. Especially leaving her loved one in a lie of saying she'll be back the very next day.

Nozomis hand dropped from Eli's cheek and went back to her side.
"You better go Elichi...before your late for work..."
After finishing her last sentence to Eli she walked out of the room. Her arms folded and her head hung down.
And it felt different to Eli. Nozomi never left like that. Never. She usually said
"I love you Elichi" or "I'll be waiting darling" or just another one of her teasing jokes...

Once hearing another ring go off on her phone she grabbed it and put it in her pocket and grabbed a medium suit case like bag and tossed it out the window.

She grabbed her everyday work brief case and walked outside but once seeing maki in her drive way and out of her car, she tossed her suit case to her and quickly ran to the side of her house to quickly get the suit case before Nozomi noticed.

After retrieving it she ran back to Makis car and tossed it into the trunk and slammed it shut quickly getting into the passenger seat.

Maki closed her door and handed Eli her brief case.

"It's getting to you know isn't it. "
Maki asked while pulling out of the driveway.

Eli paused for a second to answer, looking at her house and noticed a curtain pulled to the side slightly, a lil bit of purple haired showed. She waved through the window at her and saw her quickly go away from the window making her smile.

Finally Eli turned to maki and sighed
"It really is...I won't be able to bear leaving Nozomi alone...it feels like I'm just abandoning her..."

Maki focused on the road but started feeling like she was about to tear up.
"Th-that's how I'm feeling with Ni-..Nico" Her tone of voice made Eli surprised, Maki truly was the tsundere girl...

Maki rubbed onto her eyes with one of her hands and kept the other on the wheel.
"S-she's just gonna be left alone! I can't have that...I hope to god Kotori or Nozomi will make her calm.."

Eli looked at her friend and nodded
"I bet they will Maki-chan... I know they will.."

The drive to the airport was a long quiet ride for the two. As they parked the car in the airport parking lot they saw Umi having her head hung down looking at her suit case.

"Umi. " Maki called out handing Eli her suit case handle, and walked over to Umi.

"I-I don't think I can leave Maki.." Umi starred at her bag, her face seemed to look like she was about to blow a fuse.

"You know we have no choice. This is all for just making sure our loved ones will be protected. "

" No choice!? We should have people going around looking for damn clues to where the fuck Tsubasa lives! THEY CANT EVEN JUST BRING AGENTS TO HERE TO SEE IF SHE WOULD BE HERE!?"
Umi snapped back at Maki

Maki narrowed her eyes and raised her hand in the air and back hand slapped Umi across her cheek. The sudden hit made Umis eyes open wide. They never harmed each other in anyway and this action just made Umi paralyzed from shock.

" now listen. Think about it. Tsubasa is a famous well known idol still to this point. You really think they are gonna give up the location of the house? No. And second. Did you happen to FORGET, we are a secret agency? We bring out that type of shit when it's a bigger deal than just one spy, spying on us for information. So I'm sorry but are choices are limited"

Umis expression turned from shock to an emotionless glare. "I understand. I'll shut up now. "
She grabbed her bag from the trunk and slammed the trunk hard shut and stormed off in front of the girls rolling her suit case to the entry doors to the airport.

Maki sighed and grabbed her suit case back from Eli and started to walk as well and Eli walked next to her side

"Wow maki..."

"I'm sorry. But I'm fed up with this damn trip. And I feel like Umi was gonna make a scene in the parking lot. We cause way too much attention. "
Eli sighed and agreed with Maki and met up with Umi inside the airport check ins.

As they were in the check ins Eli started to remember the very first trip she took with Nozomi and muse.

"GUYS GUYS! Hurry! we are gonna be late for the departures! " Honoka yelled out as she was jogging towards the gateway for their plane

"THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT HONOKA! YOU JUST HAD TO GET BREAD ON THE WAY HERE" Umi cried out running to catch up with Honoka.

"H-hey! Hold up! I can't run that fast!" Nico yelled out from the back of all them.

Rin, Eli , and Nozomi laughed at Nico as they started to run up with everyone else.

Maki sighed seeing she had to help Nico and quickly grabbed her arm and started to run faster
" You are too damn slow Nico-chan!"

Nozomi looked back at them and smirked
"I'm glad you two are sitting together!" She cried out and laughed as she ran next to Eli.

"Honoka-chan! Take out the tickets the gateway is just up ahead!" Kotori yelled out running with Hanayo.

"Oh right!" Honoka started to look through her beach bag and before she knew it she tripped not watching where she was running and ended up on the floor

"Ahh!"

The rest of the muses started to laugh and stopped around Honoka
"Did you have a nice fall Honoka-chan nya~?" Rin smirked and moved honokas hair off her face.

All the muse girls laughed besides Honoka and grabbed the tickets that stuck out from Honokas beach bag.

Umi and Kotori helped Honoka up and chuckled
"Be careful next time Honoka-chan..." Kotori said grabbing the beach bag off the floor.

"Heh...sorry " Honoka scratched the back of her neck and laughed awkwardly.

"Alright so now that Honoka is up and alive lets hurry up and get on the plane " Eli smiled but quickly gasped feeling two hands on her back and a pair of breast go against it

"Elichi is right! Let's go everyone" Nozomi smirked and playfully rubbed against Eli's back teasingly and began to push Eli towards the gateway.

Maki looked annoyed by Nico as she got onto her back
"Heeve ho Maki-chan! To the gateway!"

Maki sighed annoyed and began to walk to the gateway.

"Kayo-chin I'll hold your hand as we fly on the plane nya!" Rin smiled and grabbed Hanayos hand and began to walk towards everyone

"O-okay Rin..." Hanayo blushed and followed behind her.

As they all got into there seats everyone sat like this

Nozomi with Eli and honoka

Hanayo with Rin and Kotori

And last
Nico with Maki and Umi.

Rin kicked the seat in front of her since it was Nico in front and laughed
"Nico-chan gets to sit with Maki-chan? Kawaii!' Nya~!"

Nico growls annoyed and looks back at Rin from her chair "hey stop! And shut up!"

Umi glanced back at Kotori and they both got eye contact causing them both the blush and look away.

Surprisingly Nozomi wasn't paying attention to them. She was rubbing beads together and praying for luck and a safe trip.

Eli laughed at the others and then looked at Nozomi and smiled
"Praying to the gods?"

Right when Nozomi stopped rubbing she turned to Eli and laid her head on her shoulder "yep... I kinda don't like airplane trips... They always make me extra worried..."

Eli blushes and chuckled
"Well whenever you feel uneasy you can hold my hand alright nozo-"

Eli was cut off by the flight attendant turning on the seat buckle signal and everyone quickly put on there seat belts.

"Nico-chan you took my seat belt. " Maki growled in annoy

"I did? Oh oops! This is my first trip on a plane..." Nico chuckled and handed Maki back the seat belt buckle.

Nozomi quickly put on her seat belt worried and looked at everyone to make sure they had there's on and sighed nervously.
" ok... Ok..."

Eli smiled and grabbed Nozomis hand instead of waiting for her to do so and intertwined her fingers with Nozomis.
"Everything's ok...I never knew you would look this cute scared Nozomi..."

Nozomi blushed and looked away but glanced at their hands. "Shut up Elichi..."

Eli snapped back into reality by a security guard as she told her to walk through the metal detector.

The blonde quickly walked passed it and was cleared to go through to the gateways.

Maki and Umi were already finished and waited for Eli with there bags next them.

"Finally. Now let's go. said the plane was already here. " Maki said while watching Eli walk over to her.

Umi sighed and lead the way to where the private planes area is.

As Eli started to follow behind them both her eyes seemed to roam around and right when she passed a souvenir shop, a beach post card sat on one of the racks and it caused Eli to have another memory roam around her head.

"Elicchi... Why did you drag me out here...? Everyone else might be looking for us..." Nozomi looked at Eli a lil confused.

Eli took a deep breath and grabbed both of Nozomis hands and looked at her straight in the eyes.
"Nozomi, ever since our first year at Otonokizaka I've...always had these feelings towards you... And ever since then till now I've been hiding those feelings from you..."

Nozomis eyes widen hearing Eli's words and became speechless.
"Elichi..."

Eli sighed and closed her eyes for a second but then opened them and gently squeezed Nozomis hands feeling nervous.

"Nozomi. I love you. And not just in a friend way, but an actual I love you way. My heart always melts by your teases and your small touches. I hated keeping this from you...so...I felt like i should tell you now..." Eli's head hung down worried to what Nozomi would say but felt a her heart race as she felt a hand lift her chin up.

Nozomi leaned forward and planted her soft lips upon Eli's and squeezed her hand as well feeling flustered.

The kiss made Eli's eyes widen and nearly took her by surprise as Nozomi mumbled after pulling away from the kiss.

"Elichi... I feel the exact same way with you...I fell in love with you the day I saw you transfer to Otonokizaka..."

Eli blushed at Nozomis words and looked into her eyes. They glistened in a way that made Eli nearly die from.

In moments Eli couldn't help herself anymore. She let go of Nozomis hand and wrapped her arms around her waist and pulled her close into a deep kiss.

Nozomis eyes widen from the action but soon relaxed and wrapped her arms around Eli's neck. Every second it felt like the kiss got deeper and more passionate in seconds.

But of course, Nozomi was the first to pull away after having a feeling that someone was coming.

"Heh... You have the feeling too?" Eli asked and smiled letting go of her waist.

"Y-yeah... We should head back to the others..." Nozomi blushed and looked at Eli flustered.

"Alright alright come on now " Eli held out her hand to Nozomi and smiled.

"Okay..." Nozomi grabbed Eli's hand and smiled at there's hands.

"Hey! yo! Eli! Your phones going off." Maki yelled out to Eli as they got outside to the private plane.

Eli snapped back into reality once again and took out her phone and gasped seeing that they were notifications from Twitter,Instagram, and Facebook.

She usually only got notifications if any of her friends tweeted or posted something. She slid her phone to unlock and gasped seeing Kotori's latest tweet
"Nozomi-chan, Nico-chan, and myself are going to the A-Rise party tonight! Hopefully the rest of the muse girls will go as well so we'll be able to have a reunion together!"

Eli's eyes widen seeing that the three girls were going to a party to the people they are trying to run from.

" are you fucking kidding me." Eli nearly yelled out in anger and clicked on another notification but it was Nozomis this time.

It read,
"Good evening everyone! It seems that the muse group will be showing up at the a-rises party. If anyone would like to come and see the reunion of the muse, please! Come to the party! It'll give you great fortune if you come~"

'This is actually happening. She's gonna be with Tsubasa there. That means they have a chance to harm or do something to her. I won't let that happen.'
Eli thought but it got Interrupted by Maki walking over to her.

"I saw Nico's tweet. This can't be happening. Out of all the people they could go hangout with its A-Rise."

Eli started to become pissed and gripped her phone tightly trying not to lose herself.
"I don't think we should go on this trip. I really don't. "

Umi looked at her phone while the two talked, and went onto Anju's Twitter and found a video.
"Hey you two. Come over here and watch this. "

As the two stopped venting for a moment they walk over to Umi and looked at her screen.

"Greetings everyone! " Anju yelled out to the crowd of people an took a microphone from one of supervisors.

Erena smiled at everyone and waved laughing at how they all cheered.

"Now looky here! The idol group A-Rise would like to invite everyone to the our new night club for an amazing opening party! "

Anju turned to look at the camera that was pointed at her and winked putting her hand on her hip.
"And to add onto that...we would like to invite the old idol group, muse."

Erena took the microphone away from
Anju and looked straight into the camera as well.
"It's gonna be an old idol reunion for them~.
Hope this party gets interesting~"

As Eli watched the video, she saw one thing.
Tsubasa wasn't with them. When the video ended only moments after Maki put a hand through her hair and sighed loudly in annoyance.

"I'm agreeing with Eli now. We can't go on this trip. " Umi said out to her other two partners.

Before any of them could agree Eli's phone went off once again.

"Can you put that damn thing on silent!?" Maki snapped at Eli but was ignored as Eli answered and walked away from the two to get privacy.

"Hello?"

"Hey Eli-chan it's Honoka!"
Eli smiled hearing from her but listened to her.

"I know you saw what I saw on Twitter Eli-chan. Now look. I contacted Kotoris mother already so don't worry about going on the plane. You three are staying here because I got a plan. "

Eli gasp hearing that and smiled happily.
"Oh thank god...I'm so relieved we don't have to leave. But what is the plan?"

"I'll explain it when you get back to the main headquarters. I'll be waiting for you three to arrive. "
Eli nodded and ended the call and walked back over to the other two.

"Alright girls. Looks like there's been a change of plans. Time to head back to headquarters. "

Both Umi's and Maki's face lit up hearing they weren't leaving and grabbed there suit cases.

"Oh thank you God. " Umi yelled out laughing happily.

"What are we gonna do Eli?" Maki ask looking a little confused.

"We'll all see when we get there. Now let's g-"
Eli got caught off by hearing a motorcycle engine turn on from behind them and then heard the noise of it go away in seconds.

"I have a feeling that was Tsubasa..." Maki said scanning back at where they heard the noise.

"I have the same feeling. " Umi said sounding really pissed.

"Alright so now I have a feeling we should hurry up. So let's go you two. " Eli said to them and quickly grabbed her bag and ran back inside the airport.

Maki and Umi both followed behind and smiled determined that things will get better.

"I'm coming Nozomi..." Eli mumbled under her breath and continued to run through the departure airways.