Hyperdimension Neptunia belongs to Compile Heart, Idea Factory, Sega and whomever else worked on it.

Would you believe this whole thing came from me being fixed on one line?

Also, no, I'm not doing another long fic here, I just figured that I'd do this so my muse will stop bothering me about it.

"Hello, Neptune." Vert said as she met with her friend at a small cafe in Leanbox. "I'm glad you could make it."

"I'm surprised you'd want to talk to me." Neptune said as she sat down. "Noire and Blanc haven't been willing to talk to me in the past year."

Vert merely raised an eyebrow. "Well, considering what you said to Plutia, do you blame them?" When Neptune winced, she nodded. "Oh yes, I heard ALL about that. Noire and Blanc came over quite a bit and had quite a few... Choice words about you."

"I can't imagine why." Neptune said, only somewhat sarcastically.

"Believe me, Neptune, if not for Plutia and Peashy, those two would have already told you that you weren't allowed to come back to this dimension ever again." Vert answered her. "In fact, if it wasn't for the fact that Plutia would be utterly devestated to never be able to make amends with you, you would have already been cut off entirely from this world."

Neptune's mis-matched eyes showed tiredness and frustration. "Vert... Do you really think. Do you really think that I wanted to go "hey, Plutie! Thanks for putting up with me for twenty years, now let me shit all over our friendship by calling you a bitch" like that?"

Vert shrugged at her. "From my perspective, it kind of does."

Neptune sighed heavily and looked down. "Vert... I was such a bitch back before I lost my memories. If I had made friends with my Noire, Blanc and Vert before I lost my memories, I would have driven them away, they would have tried to kill me even harder." She gripped her dress and trembled. "I don't want that for Plutie. I don't want her to be all alone."

"Don't you think you're projecting?" Vert asked with a raised eyebrow. "Besides, I think you're too harsh on yourself." She sighed as Neptune looked at her with a confused look. "While it is true you had a different personality in the past, I honestly think that if you had made the effort to make friends with our counterparts in your world that you would have been just fine."

"Well, maybe, but considering that I wasn't the cute, loveable Neptune I am today, I doubt it would have worked out." Neptune had a small blush come to her face. "Well, not like it has now."

"How's married life treating you?" Vert asked, giggling as Neptune's face turned bright red. "My, my... Even teasing you ends up like this. Just what is my counterpart doing to you every night?"

Neptune looked away, her face still bright red. "Probably not as much as you're thinking." She could feel Vert raising and eyebrow and was waiting for an answer. "I still feel embarrassed to even kiss, okay?"

"My, you are innocent." Vert giggled at her. "You lived with Plutia for twenty years and don't react to teasing much, but the instant someone tries to romance you, you turn into a worse Tsundere than Noire is."

"I know!" Neptune groused and hung her head. "I know that they're trying to be patient, but I feel like I'm toying with their feelings, but every time I think about trying that stuff I just... My brain turns into mush and I don't know what to do."

"So..." The Ultradimension Leanbox CPU smiled at Neptune, "what would it take for you to forgive Plutia for what she did?"

Neptune shook her head. "It's not that I want to have to forgive her, I just want her to become a better person and not go all Sadie on people just because they started a squabble in her home or because they fought against her."

Vert smiled at her. "Is that all?" Neptune nodded. "Well, if you must know, both Blanc and Noire have been helping her sate her sadistic urges every night."

"...WHAT?!" Neptune yelped in surprise. "You mean..?" When Vert nodded, her face turned bright read and she swore that steam was coming out of her ears.

"Yes, it was quite the surprise when I came by one day and saw Blanc tied up and Plutia dripping candle wax over her." When Noire had explained to Vert that the whole thing was consentual and that Blanc actually liked being helpless with the hot wax dripping over her body, it nearly blew her mind, but she wasn't one to interfere, so long as everyone involved agreed to it. "Plutia hasn't made any sort of teasing or innuendos to anyone outside of monsters and the random bad guy that pops up from time to time." Vert smiled as she saw two people walk up behind Neptune. "Well, I think you need to have a talk with them."

Neptune's eyes widened as she felt a hand on each of her shoulders. "...Noire and Blanc?"

"I'm surprised you'd bother to return here." Blanc said, anger in her voice. "You really hurt Plutia. It took us days to keep her from trying to hurt herself. Do you have any idea how much that girl loves you?" Neptune stiffened as Blanc said that. She had no idea that Plutia could love her at all.

"But you threw it all away." Noire whispered to her. "And just so you know, even if you two make up, I will never forgive you for how much you hurt her."

"...I understand." Neptune said softly. "...Do you want me to never return?"

"Yes." Both Blanc and Noire answered instantly.

"However, Plutia would be forever harmed if you disappeared entirely without forgiving her." Blanc answered. "Will you meet with her and let her show you that she's gotten better?"

"...You want me to disappear after that, don't you?" Neptune asked rhetorically.

"I think it would be for the best," Noire admitted to her, "because I'd rather not deal with you hurting her like that again in the future."

"You may not understand," Blanc spoke up, "Plutia wasn't just sad, she destroyed her room, destroyed her clothes and was trying to claw her skin off as her way to punish herself."

Neptune stiffened at that. "...What?"

"She still has moments where Noire and I have to stop her from trying to hurt herself because she thinks she's not good enough to get your forgiveness." Blanc answered.

"You can apologize and never return, or just never return." Noire answered her. "I'll thank you for the years we were friends, Neptune, but if I have to choose between letting you come around and hurting her again or not seeing you again, guess which one I'll choose."

Neptune sighed and looked down. "...You're right. Let's go... I need to talk to Plutie."

Vert smiled as Noire and Blanc let go of Neptune and the three walked out of the cafe. Leaving some money for the serving staff, she followed after them.

(-)

Several minutes later...

"NEPTUNA!" Peashy yelled as she crashed into Neptune, sending them both to the ground. "Ahhahahahahahahaha!"

Neptune groaned and looked at Peashy with a wry smile. "Have you been leveling up? I think your strength stat got a lot higher."

Peashy just laughed and hugged Neptune. "Um, are IF and Compa okay? I haven't seen them and Nowa and Blanc won't let me come over."

"They're fine and getting bigger." Neptune hugged Peashy back. "We'll see about letting you come see them, okay?" Peashy nodded and the two broke the hug. "Where's..." Neptune trailed off as she saw Plutia looking at her. What gave Neptune pause was the meek, almost demure look on her face. "P-Ko, could you go to another room? I want to talk to Plutie alone."

Behind her, she could feel Noire and Blanc about to say something when Vert spoke up. "I agree, they have stuff to talk about, ladies, so let's leave them for now."

Both Blanc and Noire gave Neptune a glare and left with Peashy and Vert.

After they were gone, Plutia motioned towards the couch and gave Neptune a small smile. "Um... Neppy... I..." Before Plutia could say anything more, Neptune was there, hugging her. "Neppy?"

"I should have explained things better, Plutie..." Neptune held the hug. "I hurt you so much because I'm a big dummy." She let go of the hug and looked at Plutia with tears in her eyes. "You're one of my best friends, Plutie, I should have explained it better."

"Neppy?" Plutia could feel tears welling up in her eyes. "What..."

"I don't want you to hurt Noire, Vert and Blanc and end up all alone, Plutie." Neptune continued to speak. "I want you to be Plutie. I just don't want Plutie to drive everyone away because she went Sadie on them too much."

"Nah uh..." Plutia shook her head. "I've been... Working REAAAAALY hard to keep that under control. Noire and Blanc," she blushed heavily, "they're really submissive and like me dominating them."

Neptune was blushing softly, "I'm surprised you're embarrassed by this."

Plutia blushed more and shook her head. "Nah uh... Not embarrassed... Turned on..." Neptune jerked in surprise. "Neppy, you don't get it... I..." She looked down and sighed. "When I did THAT to your sister... I felt really good..." Plutia actually looked really bothered as she continued to speak, much to Neptune's surprise. "It was really good! I wanted to feel it some more, so I kept going and really hurt her. And then you got mad at me..." Plutia shivered, "but I can't help it... I... I get excited when I do stuff like that."

"...You get sexually excited at the thought of causing others pain?" Neptune asked, getting a nod from Plutia, who started to fidget. "Have you..?"

"I promise!" Plutia held up her hands. "Only when Noire and Blanc are okay with it. And I talked to people who practice S&M so that I don't hurt them permanently and I learned that I was..." She sighed and slumped, "I was just a big bully. I still do those mean things to monsters and bad guys, but I don't do it to anyone else." Plutia looked up at Neptune with tears in her eyes. "Neppy, I really am sorry for hurting Neppy Jr."

"Plutie..." Neptune hugged Plutia again. "That's not why I said that to you." She could feel Plutia's confusion. "Do you remember how I was when I was under Anonydeath's mind control?"

"Uh huh. You were a biiiig meanie."

"...Plutie..." Neptune trembled and let go of the hug. "I was the worst meanie. Do you know how many times I stabbed my Noire with my sword? If she wasn't a CPU she'd have so many scars on her body." Neptune actually hated bathing with Noire, Vert and Blanc after regaining her memories from before.

Because every time she looked at them she could see the broken bones, cuts, scars and bruises that she caused.

"Neppy?" Plutia looked at her in confusion. "You did..."

"I was worse than you." Neptune told her. "I didn't enjoy it like you did, but," she trembled, "I hurt them so much... I hurt them and..." Tears started to fall out of her eyes, "I don't know why they want to be near me now. They never forgot how horrible I was. Why did they..."

"Because they love you, Neppy." Plutia said like it was the most obvious thing in the world and Neptune looked at her in confusion. "You're a big dummy sometimes." Plutia smiled at her. "I love you, Peashy, Iffy, Compa and your wives all love you. I know my Noire and Blanc still love you, but they're really mad at you."

"...Plutie, I..." She blinked as Plutia put a finger on her lips.

"I don't love you like a lover." Plutia shook her head. "I love you as family. And when you love someone... You can forgive them if they make an honest attempt to change."

"...I'm really sorry, Plutie." Neptune whispered and hugged Plutia again. "I'm sorry for trampling on your feelings."

"And I'm sorry for hurting your sister and scaring you." Plutia answered her. "I've really tried to rein in my urges. And I've been taking lessons on how to be a proper domme for Noire and Blanc."

Neptune blushed at that. "I... See..."

"...Neppy..." Plutia let go of the hug and took a deep breath. "I really am sorry, please..." She blinked as Neptune put a finger on her lips and smiled at her.

"Plutie... So long as you keep working at it, I'll forgive you too."

Plutia and Neptune smiled at each other and hugged each other again.

(-)

In the other room, Vert smirked at Noire and Blanc as the three of them and Peashy watched what was going on in the other room thanks to the security cameras that were installed. "So..?"

Both of them sighed and nodded.

"Beru Beru..?" Peashy looked at Vert. "Do you love Neptuna?"

"As a friend." Vert answered the little girl. She looked at Blanc and Noire. "Well? Will you forgive her?"

"...If she ever makes Plutia cry again, I'll not only never forgive her, I'll try to kill her and close the portal myself." Noire said, getting a nod from Blanc.

"I think that's fair, but only so long as you two promise to treat her the way you did before she hurt Plutia." Vert said. "Quite frankly, I don't want to see my friends fighting and if I have to choose, I'll cut you all out of my life."

"Fair enough." Blanc nodded to her.

The least they could do was give Neptune another chance. For Plutia and Peashy's sake if nothing else.

(-)

Hours later, back in the Hyperdimension...

Neptune walked in to her Basilicom's living area and blinked as she saw Blanc sitting at the table. "Um, hi Blanc..."

Blanc looked up from her book and gave Neptune a small smile. "Hello, how was the other world?"

"Pretty good. Plutie and I had a lot to talk about." Neptune said, getting a nod from Blanc.

"Did you two finally make up?" Blanc asked, causing Neptune to jerk in surprise. "You talk in your sleep and you keep begging Plutia to forgive you."

"...Oh." Neptune sighed and nodded. "I fucked up with her. I almost ruined my friendships with everyone over there..." She trailed off as she felt a hand squeezing one of hers. Looking up, she saw Blanc standing in front of her, smiling. "Blanc?"

"You shouldn't swear, I'm not used to hearing naughty language from you." Blanc smirked at her, causing Neptune to snort, "but you made up with them, right?" Neptune nodded at her. "Then it's all good."

Neptune bit her lip softly and took a step forward. "Blanc?" Blanc blinked in surprise as Neptune leaned in and gave her a small kiss on the lips. It wasn't passionate, it was a simple, chaste kiss. "...Thank you."

"...Neptune?" Blanc was touched, Neptune had trouble with romantic movies, she wasn't sure that she'd ever get a kiss from her.

Neptune had a troubled look on her face and she screwed her eyes shut. "Whenever... Whenever we take a bath... I'm not looking away because I don't want to look at you, Vert or Noire. I want to look at you, you're all so sexy..."

Blanc felt herself blushing at that. "Neptune... Thank you." She meant it too. While Vert had gone out of her way to make Blanc feel better about herself, it was nice to hear other people call her sexy as well.

Neptune sighed heavily. "But every time I look at you... All I see are the bruises, cuts, holes and broken bones that I caused you, Noire and Vert in the past." She looked down and tears started to fall out of her eyes. "If I look at your bodies for too long then I'll start crying..."

"Neptune, look at me." Blanc said and Neptune looked up, only to have Blanc kiss her on the lips, causing Neptune's eyes to widen in shock as her face turned red.

Unlike the kiss Neptune gave Blanc, this one was full of passion as Blanc wrapped her arms around Neptune's neck and even slipped her tongue into Neptune's surprised mouth.

A minute later, Blanc pulled back, panting and blushing hard. "You idiot. You're smarter still, but you're still an idiot."

"Blanc?" Neptune was still blushing. Not only was that kiss incredible... But she felt really tingly all over.

"I love you." Blanc said to her. "Noire loves you. So does Vert. If it bothers you so much..." She grinned as an idea came to her. "Then I order you to kiss all the areas you injured."

Neptune jerked in surprise and her face turned red. "Um, but I hurt you in places that are..."

"Lewd?" Blanc asked, getting a nod from Neptune. "Well, then you'll have to kiss lewd places and get used to it, won't you?"

Neptune nodded and blushed, idly wondering if she'd have to do the same with Vert and Noire.

And, for some reason, she looked forward to kissing not only Vert and Noire's old injuries, but also Blanc's.

Blanc smiled as she led Neptune to the bedroom. Getting intimate with Neptune was a rather slow and sometimes frustrating exercise, but hopefully this could lead to more fun things in the future.

So if you were wondering what that one thing was, it was the line that Neptune gave to Ultra Vert when she said "do you think I LIKED telling Plutia that I think you're a bitch?"

The rest of this grew from that.

Edit: So I want to clarify something right now. Neptune is not OFFICIALLY married to Noire, Vert and Blanc of her world, that being said, they do live together in Planeptune as Histoire pointed out in the final part of Conversion and thus people tease them for being married. I should have clarified that earlier, but I'm a little out of it due to having some teeth pulled by the surgeon today (I wrote this after I got home, still recovering from it, oww, my jaw hurts).