„What about Makoto?" Michiru suggested. "I heard that she is a pretty good plant sitter." (Author's Note: Thanks to "the Drifter" for this suggestion!) "Good idea." Haruka agreed. "I'll go calling her. Michiru, honey, can you look for a flight to Austria in the meantime?" "Sure." Michiru smiled, hurried over to their computer and logged in to the internet. Hotaru was left standing in the middle of the living room, pouting. "And what can I do in the meantime?" the little girl asked no one in particular. After a short moment of thinking, she decided to join her papa on the phone.
"…so you can take care of our plants for a week?" Haruka talked into the receiver. "Of course, Haruka-chan. No problem!" Makoto chirped on the other line. Haruka just wanted to thank her when she felt something small hanging to her leg. She looked down only to discover Hotaru, who hung on her right leg smiling. Haruka smiled back and talked on. "Thanks a lot, Makoto. Michiru and I will bring you the key to our apartment before we head to the airport, okay?" "That's alright with me, Haruka-chan. See you later, then." "Yeah, see you later." Haruka replied and hung up the phone. She looked down at Hotaru and smiled. "Let's go and see how far Michiru-mama is with the flight, shall we?" "Yes, yes!" Hotaru squealed without letting go of her papas leg. Haruka sighed and started to walk into the living room, where Michiru sat in front of the PC, Hotaru hanging on her leg happily. When the two of them entered the room, they were greeted from a grinning Michiru. "I found a flight for tomorrow, at 2 o'clock in the morning. Can you book the hotel, sugar bear?" "Of course, honey bee." Haruka replied grinning. Before she looked down with a frown. "Hotaru, could you please let go of my leg?"
Cold, teal eyes glared at the enemy, as did cold blue ones. "I will defeat the enemy." Haruka whispered, and Michiru nodded. Haruka sneaked over to the enemy, and with a sudden jump she landed on it. "Michiru, quick! Finish him off!" the blonde yelled. Michiru dashed over to her love and closed the zipper of their enemy…the over-filled suitcase. "Finally." Haruka panted. "It's closed." Michiru nodded and eyed the suitcase worried, afraid that it would break up again. "Evil suitcase." Hotaru said, who had been watching her parent's fight with the piece of luggage that had lasted for twenty minutes. She walked over to the suitcase and scolded it: "Evil, evil suitcase!" If suitcases could able to blush, this one definitely would do that now. But since luggage usually doesn't blush, it just stood there and tried to look as innocent as possible. Haruka gave the evil suitcase one last kick, then grabbed it and carried it out into their car. Michiru checked the whole apartment again, put their flight tickets and their hotel reservation for the Hotel Sacher into her handbag, and the three of them left to head for the airport.
As soon as Haruka had taken her seat in the plane – next to Michiru of course – the tall blonde was fast asleep. Hotaru, who had already been looking forward to play with her papa the whole flight, pouted and turned to her mama for a complaint. "Look, mama, papa is sleeping! With whom shall I play now?" "Why, little darling, with me of course." Michiru answered. "No, it's boring to play with you. You always cheat." Hotaru stated, and Michiru blushed while the other passengers grinned at the cute little girl. "Hotaru! That is so not true!" Michiru scolded, and Hotaru laughed. Both of them flinched when Haruka let out a loud snore. "Dear God!" Michiru yelped. "Haruka!" she then called out, nudging her lover's side. "Don't snore!" Haruka grumbled in her sleep and tried to turn on her side, with the end effect that she almost fell out of her seat. The tall blonde awoke with a shocked grunt and clutched to the armrest as if for her dear life, causing the other passengers to break into laughter. "It's always nice to see such a happy family!" an old woman stated, causing Haruka, Michiru and Hotaru to sweat drop. Michiru gave a faked laugh and answered: "Yeah, it's nice, isn't it." Finally, the plane took off and started to head towards Vienna, Airport Schwechat.
After a very long flight (A/N: I have absolutely no idea how long it takes you to get from Tokyo to Vienna. Don't sue me.), the small family finally arrived in Schwechat. Haruka stretched while she made her way over to the conveyer band, followed by Hotaru and Michiru. "Now where's our suitcase…" Haruka spoke to herself before she spotted the precious object. Quickly, the blonde reached out for the luggage and pulled it from the band, while other people yelled at her for pushing forward so rude. However, Haruka didn't understand the Austrian dialect, and so she just smiled at the people, nodded and answered: "Hai hai. Gomen nasai." Michiru watched the scene with amusement, and when Haruka returned to her, the three of them made their way out of the airport to get a taxi.