"I don't know about that. America was pretty nice, but I am glad I can stretch my legs again," Haruka Tenou replied, grinning cheerfully as she stretched her arms behind her head, incidentally thrusting her chest forward.
"I'd accuse you of being shameless if you were wearing more flattering clothes," Michiru ribbed, good naturedly.
Haruka sidled up closer to Michiru and rested a hand on the small of her back. "But you know I'm always shameless anyway. It's one of my more endearing qualities," as she spoke she let her hand trail down lower at a maddeningly slow pace.
Michiru shivered slightly, but quickly stepped out of Haruka's reach. "None of that, now," she admonished, mock severely. "You're still sore that I wouldn't help you join the mile high club, aren't you?"
Haruka frowned at Michiru's teasing grin. "It would have been fun and you know it," she pouted.
"We'll have plenty of time for that when we get home," Michiru replied in a prim tone.
Haruka stuffed her hands in her pockets as she trailed along behind, grumbling "I always wanted to do it in an airplane..."
After the pair had made their way through baggage claim and customs, they were greeted by two welcome faces. "Hey, look! It's Setsuna and Hotaru-chan," Haruka nudged her companion and pointed to where the older woman and younger girl stood, waiting. Luckily Hotaru looked much the same as she had when they had left, since Haruka felt sure she couldn't take another growth spurt from the Senshi of Silence.
Momentarily forgetting her usual reserved and 'elegant' demeanour, Michiru rushed forward with a cry of "Hotaru-chan!" and wrapped her arms around her adoptive daughter. "Oh, I've missed you so much! Have you been good for Setsuna-mama while we've been gone?"
"I've been a good girl, Michiru-mama," Hotaru looked up at Michiru with a slightly vacant, but happy smile as she spoke.
"Yes, she's been very good. We've been waiting for you," Setsuna spoke up, her tone almost matching Hotaru's entirely.
"Hey, you alright, Setsuna?" Haruka asked as she drew near the tanned woman.
Setsuna focused on Haruka with her glassy-eyed, vacant look. "Of course I am alright. Why would you think there is anything wrong?" she asked, sounding happy yet slightly dazed.
"Well you're smiling. Really obviously. Normally we just get a little mysterious smirk out of you... what happened, did you get a boyfriend?" Haruka paused and then asked in a more hopeful tone "or a girlfriend?"
Setsuna seemed to visibly strain herself as she tried to reduce the obviousness of her smile so it was more of a slight smirk. She held it for a few seconds, her facial muscles twitching slightly, before lapsing back into her vacant shit-eating grin of before. "I have not begun any kind of new relationship or activity since the last time you saw me. We should go home."
"Yes, we should go home," Hotaru agreed, her voice quietly insistent.
Haruka and Michiru looked at each other, shrugged, and left the airport with their adoptive family.
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