"So what exactly is your plan while you stay here, Neptune?" Yuki asked curiously one day.

Blanc's family was in it's usual stride. The aforementioned person playing with her younger sisters, while the eldest just lounged around, like Neptune was doing right now. In fact, they had actually come to get to know each other better.

Turns out Neige was just about as carefree as Neptune was, and maybe about as dumb as her from what it seemed, but that was neither here nor there.

At the end of the day, Blanc's older sister was someone she could relate to very well with all things from personal life, to handling their younger sisters, and all things Blanc.

That last point being something they had in common. Maybe for similar reasons, or for very different reasons. Both had their own reasoning. But that's besides the point.

"To be perfectly honest?" Neptune replied, "I'm just kind of winging it honestly." she said as she rubbed the back of her head sheepishly, "At the very least it beats being with only Junior or being anywhere near my parents for spring break."

Yuki raised an eyebrow at that comment, "You keep bringing up your parents. Is your situation with them not similar to ours?"

Neptune shook her head, "Not in the slightest. In fact, for me it's very relieving to have a family like this. At least it's only familial bickering."

Yuki was stunned into silence.

Neige smirked beside Neptune and looked at her mom, "You done prodding now, Yuki? I'm pretty sure you got the answer you were looking for."

"Y-Yes I did…" said woman muttered, "I'll take my leave then. If you need me I'll be in the kitchen preparing lunch…"

Neptune let out an embarrassed laugh, "I didn't mean to drive your mom away, Neige. It's kind of just a really sore subject for me, yknow?"

Neige waved her hands dismissively and laughed, "Nah, nah. You're good, Neptune. Yuki likes to stick her head into things she shouldn't, so honestly you're giving her a taste of her own medicine if anything."

"But I still feel kind of bad…"

Beige shook her head, "Don't worry about it. Yuki's easily angered, but not easily upset."

Neptune let out a heavy, disappointed sigh at that. "If you say so…"

"Anyway," Neige glanced at her three younger sisters running around the living room. The twins seemed like they'd finally gotten tired and were going to take a-... "Ah, there we go. Those two finally tuckered themselves out. I'll go put them in their room. I'll give you two some alone time, hmmm?"

Before Blanc could give any sort of tired retort, Neige stood up from the couch, hoisted the two small twins over her shoulder and walked off into the direction of the bedrooms.

Meanwhile Neptune was left confused at the comment and gestured for the now tired Blanc to take a seat next to her.

"You good, Blanc?" Neptune asked

As the brunette wiped the sweat off her face with her sleeve, Blanc responded, "N-Not really… it's… been a while… since I've played with the-..." she quickly inhaled and exhaled, "Twins…"

Neptune sighed, "You should at least have a drink of water…" She quickly got up, took a cup and poured some water from the sink."Come on now, don't be stubborn." she said while handing it out to her.

"That's my line." Yuki commented from behind, "Blanc can be real stubborn at times. But I guess you'd know that by now since you're friends with her."

Neptune simply ignored Yuki and motioned for the cup of water. "Take it. Or I'll force you to drink it."

Blanc sighed and begrudgingly took the cup from Neptune. She drank quietly as she could through bated breath..

"T-Thanks…" she mumbled, almost under her breath. But Neptune still caught it.

"I'm sorry, I didn't hear you~?"

"T-T-Thanks…! Okay, there, I said it! Now stop pressuring me like that…" Blanc muttered straight after. "It's making me uncomfortable…"

"Why's it making you uncomfortable? Hmm-.." Neptune was about to tease, but when she turned around to look, Neige was back from tucking the twins in. With a very displeased look on her face.

"Neptune. I suggest you stop that right now. Even if it is just teasing, Blanc is clearly distressed."

The purplette pouted and sighed, "Alright. Maybe I was taking it a bit too far."

Blanc paused and stared at said purplette after she said that, "That's… oddly reasonable of you."

"It's more that I don't want to upset your sister. She may be a model but I can imagine that she'd still be able to give me a beating if she really wanted to. She still has some fat on her after all."

Neige sighed, "I know that's supposed to be a compliment, but that's the exact reason why I'm not an internationally famous model all across Gamindustri actually." she explained, "They told me I don't have the figure for that, but that I'd still do amazing locally here in Lowee. But it's not like I'm just going to-..."

"Neige." Yuki simply said, cutting off her oldest daughter.

"Y-Yes, mom…?"

"Shut up. You're going on one of your tangents again. And I think your younger sister and I have already heard enough of that."

Neige groaned, "B-But-..."

"No. Now how about you be a dear and take Neptune around Lowee? She hasn't been around at least the capital since she's been here."

"I can do that, instead of Sis, actually." Blanc instantly, and eagerly offered, "She's always been boasting about how Planeptune is the best. So I want to shove it into her face that Lowee is an equally amazing place and has its own quirks."

Neige had a shit eating grin on her face, "Are you sure that's the only reason why you offered~?"

Blanc offered no response to that question, only grabbing Neptune by the hand and dragging her out to the entrance of the house. Very confused, Neptune followed her lead and slipped her sneakers on as the brunette slipped her boots on and they made their way out of the house.

"Blanc? What was that about?"

"N-Nothing…"

"It doesn't seem like it's nothing. Come on, Blanc, what's going on?"

The entire time Blanc had been dragging her, Neptune hadn't been able to get a good look at the brunette's face. It also didn't help that her face was down the entire time. But now that they were out of the house and Blanc had seemingly calmed down at least a little, Neptune could get a better look at how her friend was feeling.

And embarrassment was putting it lightly.

Seeing the shade of tomato red on her friend's cheeks was an obvious giveaway that something was going on with Blanc. But was she sure that it was what she thought it was? Because she was definitely giving off the vibe, but was the brunette aware of her own feelings to begin with?

She couldn't help but smile to herself though. Even if they were just general feelings about it being girl and girl, Neptune could rest easy knowing that she at least broke the hardened shell of Blanc for her to love someone else.

Thus the two spent the rest of the afternoon touring around Lowee, her very cute, petite, and short-tempered guide showing her popular tourism spots, explaining some of Lowee's background, and all around shopping.

It was a fairly busy afternoon, but at the end of it all, both Neptune and Blanc had lots of bags on them, and had smiles on their faces. As they came home, the rest of Blanc's family would've been forgiven in thinking that the two were lovers, but only one of them would wish that sort of relationship was real.

"Oooh~ you move very fast, Neptune." Neige teased as the purplette opened the door and lead the way, "I can't believe you would be so bold right off the bat."

"I agree. I hope you can take care of my daughter well, Neptune." Yuki chimed in with the biggest smile on her face, "I'll fully leave her in your hands."

Neptune let out a heavy blush and hastily let go of Blanc's hand, "I-It's nothing like that, Yuki! It's just that the capital was huge! And I would've gotten lost if I didn't hold on to your daughter's hand!"

Blanc smirked from behind, "It's rare to see you so embarrassed like this, Neptune."

"You should be embarrassed by this too, yknow that, Blanc?!" Neptune shouted out in response, "You're pretty calm about this whole situation yourself."

"That's because it's not focused on me at the current moment. It's on you, so I could care less."

Blanc took her boots off at the door and let herself inside of her family's house, closing the door behind her as she towed her bags into the living room for her to show off.

As she laid out her bags on the floor, she left one off to the side and started to take several boxes out of some of the bags. Some of them were just clothes, but it seemed like Blanc had bought more than that. There were a few shoes mixed in there, some hats, but most of it was clothing.

Neptune soon followed suit, after clearing up her embarrassment, and setting her own bags down next to Blanc's. The amount of her bags were significantly less than the brunette's but that's because she didn't buy any clothing items at all. Instead, what she pulled out of her bags were… multiple sets of Gunpla? Some of them were huge too!

"Who's that for? It certainly can't be for you, you don't seem the type." Yuki commented as she inspected Neptune's tower of boxes.

"My younger sister." Neptune simply replied, "She's big into this stuff, but there's not many stores that sell em in Planeptune. Not especially the models she wants. So I figured that since I saw them in a store here, I should nab em for her when I eventually fly back over."

"That's pretty thoughtful of you."

Blanc nodded, "Yup. But she's never thinking of herself, so I bought her a whole case of pudding. Cause if she's not going to buy anything for herself, I might as well buy something for her."

"What did you even buy her?" Yuki asked

Blanc gave a cold sweat and chuckled slightly. "That was the hard part. I don't know much about her." she said, "I tried to think of all the different things that she could've liked, but Neptune's a fairly straightforward person. So…"

She grabbed the bag off to the side and pulled out the contents from inside, "I just bought her pudding instead. I think a month's worth of pudding for her? I…"

Neige could sense the dread emanating from Blanc as she pulled out the boxes of pudding and chuckled, "I'll reimburse you, don't worry, Lil' Sis."

Blanc's eyes widened, "A-Are you sure? You don't-..."

"Think of it as me paying it forward for the nice thing you did for Neptune, yeah? You two are at least friends, clearly, if you're willing to spend quite a bit on this much of a haul of pudding."

Blanc gave an appreciative smile at her older sister and nodded, "Thank you, Sis…"

"Don't worry about it." Neige gave a wink and a smile, giving a thumbs up after as she watched the two girls put their things back into the bags.

"Now who wants to have dinner? I have it prepared, and I'm sure both of you are pretty hungry after all that walking around, right?" Yuki offered

"I want food! The last time I had your cooking it was really good, Yuki!" Neptune replied enthusiastically as she made her way to the table

"I'd appreciate some food right about now as well…" Blanc mumbled, following suit behind the purplette. A small smile on her face that only Yuki and Neige could see as she walked.