Chapter 4: Green Sister

"...And that's what happened." The tiny Histoire stared at Goddess Neptune duly.

"Neptune, all you said was 'that's what happened'. You didn't tell me anything." Ah. Grabbing Goddess Neptune, I shifted Plutia to one arm and pushed her aside, sitting in front of the tiny Histoire.

"I'm sorry… Histoire." I still can't believe that this tiny girl is my mother-in-law, she's so tiny. She's like a doll! "What she meant to say was that Neptune and I are married." Tiny eyes blinked at me as they slowly widened.

"Excuse me?" I explained my marriage to my Neptune once more and again Histoire's eyes widened. "Ah…" The tiny girl began to look like she was shaking- Oh wait she is. "Aba...ababa...ababababa." Turning to the others for a reason, they waved it off.

"It's fine. Histoire acts like this whenever she's shocked." Oh. I guess that-

"Food's ready!" My husband's voice caught our attention. Neptune was wearing- Hey, that's my apron. "We have a lot of eggs, so I made a lot of omlete rice." Ooooh. Nice, Neptune. Almost by instinct, Goddess Neptune, Vert, Rom and Ram drifted towards the smell of the eggs. The other girls followed suit as Histoire slowly stopped shaking and sounding like an adorable alarm clock.

"Sorry, Histoire." The girl on the book nodded, smiling.

"It's fine, Ms. Noire." She then bowed deeply. "Please take care of them while they're there." I bowed as well, placing Plutia onto my lap as she grabbed a fistful of my hair. Just hold a for a bit, Plutia.

"I'm sure it'll be fine." Raising my head, I see my Goddess counterpart staring at me. Is there something on my face? "Noire?" Wow, it feels weird to call another me by my name. Now that's confusing. My counterpart was apparently in deep thought as she was surprised that I called out to her, stuttering and mumbling an excuse. Aw, she's shy.

Before I could ask her anything, Plutia let out a yawn. Oh, is it nap time already? Raising my baby up to eye level, Plutia put a sleepy smile before gently tugging my hair.

"I'm sorry, but you can go on and eat now. I'll join later." Nodding, my goddess counterpart joined the others as I took Plutia upstairs, placing her onto her bed. Kissing her on the forehead, I watched as her smile grew wider and wider she entered the dream world. As I closed the door, I heard a the doorbell ring from downstairs.

"Noire!" Neptune's voice could be heard as well. "Could you get that? These girls are have my hands fu- No Neptune! That's not the right way to use a ketchup bottle!"

"But I like my eggs with ketchup!" Oh boy… I think I'll let my husband deal with that.

Heading downstairs, I heard the doorbell ring once more. I walked over to the front door and opened it.

"Oh, Noire! Is my twin sister here?" Greeting me was a face that I could recognize from a mile away, we were partners after all. Vert smiled at me, her smartphone in her hand. Compared to her sister, about twice as tall as Blanc. Vert was wearing jeans and a track jacket, her hair was tied into a ponytail and- Oh she looks exhausted. "Blanc got some mail and I wanted to give it to her."

"Oh alright, I'll give them to h-" The sound of a stomach growling filled my ears and Vert paused as she was handing me the letters. Eyes slowly making eye contact, my former partner's cheeks tinted a rosy red. "Neptune's making omelette rice, would you like some?" Instantly, her eyes light up… and her stomach growled again.

"I'd love to!" Nodding, I cupped my hands and called out to Neptune, hearing his voice from inside. "Neptune, can you make another omelette rice?"

"Who is it?"

"It's Vert!" As soon as I called her name, the chatter from inside got louder, drowning out my husband's voice.

"Do you have company?" Vert looked a little concerned but I waved her worry off.

"Well… it's company but…" I looked inside, gesturing Vert to follow me. "I think it'll be better if we explained to you inside." Patting her empty belly, my ex-partner walked with me inside the house and into the dining room.

Ah…

…

… What happened here?

Neptune was currently frying another egg for Vert, while constantly checking on the girls as they ate. Goddess Neptune had used half of the ketchup bottle and drowned her eggs in the sauce. Nepgear was liberal with her ketchup, eating her food at an average pace. Uni was observing her sister nag at the other Neptune. Goddess Blanc was silently eating her food, staring at her older counterpart as she basically inhaled her food. Rom ate her food slowly, trying to keep ketchup off of her clothes. Her twin sister, Ram, on the other hand, ate her food at a fast pace, ketchup splattering all over her area. Goddess Vert had been trying to wipe the ketchup off of Ram when she locked eyes with our Vert.

Goddess Vert's napkin dropped onto Ram's lap, who picked it up with her ketchup-stained fingers and wiped herself clean with Goddess Blanc helping her. Vert kept eye contact with her counterpart as Neptune handed her plate and left the room looking for an extra chair as the goddesses had taken the main four chairs plus the four extra stools from nearby our counter.

"Thank you, Nep-Nep." Vert spoke as Neptune returned with a chair from his office, a black rolling chair that Neptune kept from his old home. In fact his desk space looked exactly like it used to be when Vert and I dormed in his house, the only difference was that he had some of the idol merchandise that his mothers gave him around his desk. It's kind of embarrassing to look at myself back then,

"No problem, Vert." Gesturing to the goddesses at the table, Neptune shrugged. "Sorry about the commotion." The blonde haired twin of Blanc smiled turned to the goddesses.

"Well, it's not everyday that I see a cosplay of myself." First, Neptune and now Vert? Is this going to be a trend? Anyways, when Vert said that, the room went silent. Aware of the silence, Vert looked left and right, confused at all the stares that she was given.

"I'll take care of this." Wha- When did Blanc end up next to me? Oh, she's done eating.

"Are you sure?" The brunette nodded and slid- She's literally sliding. Wow.- next to her sister, placing her head on her shoulder. The blonde noticed the pressure on her shoulder and immediately hugged Blanc.

"Oooooh Blanc! How's my favorite sister?" Blanc was unfazed by the affection after almost a decade of dealing with Vert. The writer patted her sister on the back and gently returned the hug.

"I'm doing alright, sis." I wonder how the girls are reac- They're silent! Wait, no. They're so shocked that they can't say anything! "I'm getting a lot of progress in my novel. How about you and your videos?"

"Oh you know. Commentary, recording, editing, scheduling. All that." Blanc nodded and let go of her sister.

"Anyways, blah, blah, blah." Vert closed her eyes… is she actually listening to Blanc mumble? "Blah, blah, blah. Blah." There's no wa-

"I got it, so these girls are not Noire's cosplay friends, but us from a different dimension." She understood that! Wow, the bond between these two sisters is incredible!

"She understood that…" The goddess version of me actually said what I was thinking out loud, that's convenient.

"If that's true then…" Vert stared at her goddess version, standing up and walking over to her, sizing her up with her eyes. Now that the two were next to each other, the goddess version of Vert was a head shorter than our Vert and had hair bobbles that let her hair down. "You must be me." Goddess Vert smiled and held out her hand, our Vert shaking it.

"It's a pleasure to meet…me. I'm the CPU of Leanbox, Vert, also known as Green Heart." Vert blinked, a smile on her face. Wait, isn't Green Heart the name of Vert's online persona?

"Well, I'm honored to meet a CPU, I go by the name of Vert Nishizawa, the twin sister of Blanc Nishizawa." Rom and Ram looked at each other confused.

"Isn't that the name of that lady Big Sis just hired?"

"...I think her name is… Mina." The twins caught the attention of Vert.

"Oh, so my mother is in your world as well." More silence. Just how often do these girls change from silence to being loud? Geez.

"You're making no sense, Big Vert!"

"...No sense." Smiling, Vert crouched down and patted the twins in the head, causing them to nuzzle into her palms.

"Girls, you see. Blanc, my Rom and Ram, and I were born under the Nishizawa family, by our mothers, Mina Nishizawa and Chika Nishizawa, formerly known by her maiden name of Hakozaki." Goddess Vert covered her mouth in surprise.

"That's the name of my brand new Oracle." Wow, there are a lot of parallels between our worlds. Vert then looked at me. "Who are your parents, Ms. Planeptune?"

"Mine? My mother is Kei Jinguji and my other mother is named Manual." Now, Goddess Noire and Uni widened their eyes.

"Yeah, Ms. Jingu- I mean, Mom, is one of my coworkers." That's right, Neptune was able to get a teaching job at his old high school.

"We know that Histy's your mommy, other me, but who's your other parent?" Neptune didn't even hesitate.

"Arfoire." All heads snapped to him, most of them looking guilty, Goddess Neptune especially.

"Other Me, I'm sorry." Neptune raised an eyebrow.

"What?" Goddess Noire pulled Goddess Neptune aside, taking a deep breath.

"You see…" My counterpart recounted to us of their journey. How Goddess Neptune lost her memory. How they became friends. How they met their Arfoire and what happened to her. When my counterpart got to what happened to my mother-in-law, Neptune looked like he was stabbed in the stomach with each word.

"So, you're saying that… you killed my Mom?" The Goddesses looked at each other and nodded.

"That's a lot to take in…" Neptune dropped onto a chair that Blanc pushed underneath his as he fell. Nice save Blanc! Blanc gave me a thumbs up. All of a sudden, I heard the smaller Blanc cry out in shock. Everyone turned to see Vert hugging Goddess Blanc, smothering him.

"I'd forgotten how adorable Blanc was when we were children!" Vert picked up the small brunette in a bear hug, twirling around in pure joy. It looked like the goddess was suffering, although I couldn't tell what it was exactly, because she also looked angry.

"Anyways, I gotta clean up the kitchen." Neptune stood up until I caught his sight with my eyes. You're going to rest now, you made our food so it's fine. Raising his hands in defeat, my husband sat back down, only to have Goddess Neptune climb onto his back. Blanc was trying to free her counterpart from her sister's clutches while Goddess Vert was trying to do the same to Rom and Ram, who were able to scramble away, causing the blonde to give a happy chase. As I walked over to the sink, Goddess Uni and Nepgear stacked the plates next to the sink.

Oh these girls are so thoughtful. Thanking them, I got to work in cleaning the dishes when I noticed another pair of hands grab the soaked plates and dry them.

"I-I'm only helping you out of respect for being able to handle a male version of Neptune, nothing else." My goddess counterpart narrowed her eyes, focusing at her task. She must be a hard worker. "Um… I've been wondering." Hm? "Well, all of your parents are women in our world, but the Neptune in this world is male. Does that mean that some of them are women as well?"

"No actually, they're women as well." My goddess counterpart blinked, confused. As we cleaned up, I explained to her how two women could have a child, even a boy. The other version of me listened to me intently.

"That's amazing." I guess this is the first time she's heard of this. "I never would have thought of that…" Turning around, we see that Neptune had stood up and was giving his counterpart a piggyback ride. Goddess Blanc was free and trying to rescue her sisters from Vert as our Blanc and Vert sat down and caught up on what was happening. Goddess Uni and Nepgear were able to pull Rom and Ram away and keep them in a safe corner. Aw, they remind me of… them.

Smiling, I put the last dish away when the other Noire caught my eye once more.

"I have one more question." As if on cue, I could hear Plutia crying.

"Yes, I need to make it quick." Nodding, the girl pulled her thoughts together.

"Do you like the way your living right now?" Really? Is that a question? Sighing, I patted my goddess counterpart on the shoulder and turned to leave, only to look at her.

"I love it." I left her with that simple answer, tapping Neptune on the back to let him know what I was doing and headed upstairs.

I wonder what my baby girl needs.