Nepu Story

Ah another day at work, easy and slow, just the way you liked it. The window was open, letting you breath the fresh, clear air of your home city, Planeptune. IT work was simple for the most part once you got the hang of it, and waiting on calls from the mostly technologically illiterate workforce that you maintained equipment for was slow.

*click- chink*

Your can makes a nice fizzling noise as you take a sip of icy cold cola.

"WAWAWA!! Look out!"

What the hell? Some girl just called out from outside your tiny balcony, this was a damn skyscraper, what the fuck? Whatever it was super faint, maybe a suicide attempt?
You step outside onto the balcony, overcrowded with ancient equipment that your penny pinching bosses refused to let go of or store properly.

WHACK!

Two Purple shoes plant right into your face as someone swings down from the balcony above you.

"Nepu! I hit someone!" the vaguely familiar voice says.

Two light gray D pads and a mass of purple hair come into view as you quickly regain focus.

"Sorry Office Guy, I thought I would dodge out of the mall below and got lost can you help me before Histy tans my hide?"

"I don't know who you are even, who is Histy and what is going on."

"Oh, I'm Neptune!" says the girl with a cheesy but genuine and huge smile plus peace sign.

"Well I'm at work right now, unless you wanna hang around a bunch of computers not much I can do."

"Awww don't be so serious Guy, we could get some games going on those computers like nothing!"

Sigh. It’s not like you've got anything better to do.

The girl quickly carves a space for herself out of the mass of technology, finding a chair and working computer much faster than anyone who’s never been in the room should be able to. She slips a small backpack off and retrieves a cup of pudding, a small bag of chips and some sort of drink in a plastic bottle.

“Ahoi! Games are for two people ya know?”

As you’re moving over to the pair of chairs in front of what looks to be a fighting game, you ask:

“I suppose, don’t you wanna know my name or anything?”

“Don’t care, you’re helping me and that’s what matters bucko!”

Ugh, bucko is the worst this Neptune girl could have chosen, what are you some kind of sidekick? Either way, you pick up a USB game controller and sit down in one of the rickety steel chairs.

“Round 1!”

Ah, a fighting game, against a girl it should be pretty easy.

Neptune proceeds to chain combo her way through you and finish your character before you can throw a punch. Goddamn, she must have caught you sleeping.

“Round 2!”

You stand back and throw a few projectiles, even managing to hit Neptune’s character with a kick. The next frame is a blinding light as she fires an ultimate attack off and promptly shreds your character with meteors.

“Victory!” says the ancient speakers with a crackle and Neptune smugly turns to you.

“What kinda technology guy are you if ya can’t even beat me in some video games?”

“I’m not the one that asked to play a game, different one this time and I’ll wreck you.”

You pull up to a desk opposing the diminutive girl’s PC, bringing your own computer from your work desk.

“Call of Battle 4: Modern Battlefield is what I will trump you in.” you announce.

“Huh? Number 4 in the series or the newest one that is also number 4?” asks Neptune

It takes a moment to build a few classes up, you opt for a Lastation Heavy Automatic Rifle with refilling ammunition and grenades where Neptune builds a horrifyingly speedy class with a tiny handgun and a giant laser sword melee attack.
“What map?”

“Iron Oxide, the only map for 1v1 obviously.”

The match is off to a running start, very literally. Neptune’s soldier is so fast that landing shots with the stiffly recoiling rifle is more difficult than usual. She quickly picks up that straight runs fail against your superior firepower and begins waiting behind obstacles. Clearing through the map with flash grenades is a temporary solution to being unable to spot the elusive character and the match reaches its close in your favor, 25 to 16.

“Hey, we would make a pretty great team online if we can give each other that much trouble, wanna try it?”

You slide the desk to her side, and start up an ingame group. Like Neptune predicted, you two utterly sweep the scoreboards, quickly causing accusations of hacking or computer and network issues among the afflicted enemy.

Round after round, you two sweep the opposition leading to many high fives, cheers and such. You never thought you could have so much fun in this stupid, overfilled office. It feels like minutes but hours have passed.

“Oi Office Guy, I’ve got to go back or they’ll worry about me.”

“Alright, it was fun.”

As Neptune pulls on her backpack, she puts a finger to her cheek and says:

“Oh it would just be a shame if I skipped work again and somehow got lost and ended up here again…”

“I’m sure it would.” You say with a slight smile.

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It seems like it hasn’t been any time since you graduated from school and landed in this job. Some of the older employees treated you poorly just because of how easy you had it or the ease in getting your position. New technology required new brains, and each generation of console or whatever that got released either required retraining or new people. This day was busy, floor 14 had all of its routers die simultaneously and floor 17 had an irate HR woman with a broken computer.

You got back to the your office to sit for lunch, absent mindedly playing some game on your phone while waiting on the microwave. Yesterday at this time you had just gotten kicked in the face by some girl who you ended up spending the rest of the day playing video games with.

“Damn yesterday was weird.” You thought to yourself.

The day seemed a lot slower despite the rush without that girl though. Maybe Neptune would actually return, however much of a stretch it seemed. Well, she was pretty cute, a guy like you probably wouldn’t have any chance. HR’s computer is still broken so you should be done actually working in an hour or so. Normally, people put what they were eating for lunch online as some kind of “look at me”. Some people loved to post on the internet or write about their food. Why would you write down what you were eating though, it was just a cheap ramen noodle bowl.

As you go to leave, you pause for a second. Your hand hovers over the door handle.

WHACK!

The door flattens you, throwing you towards your desk.

“AHOI OFFICE GUY!”

Still in a daze, you look up to see a familiar parka dress and face.

“Why- you’re on the floor?”

“Neptune what the hell, you don’t have to make an explosive entry.”

“Oh but it’s more fun that way mister”

“I’ve got to go fix someone’s computer, if you’re here to play games you’ll have to wait.”

Neptune looks less than excited but grudgingly sits down. She folds her arms over her body and asks when you’ll be back.

“It's a waste of a perfectly good day to be working!” she says.

Getting things done when someone is waiting on you seems to be much easier, in typical HR fashion, they try to keep you around to talk your head off. You manage to squirm away from their overweight grasp and return to your office, where Neptune never even tried waiting and is halfway through a battle in some RTS.

“Hi.”

Neptune yells some commands at her teammate through the microphone before scrambling to get the headset off and talk to you.

“Make it quick, we’re about to win.”

“Getting a bit into it I see?”

“If you can, why would you not want to win?”

“Don’t you have somewhere to be Nep-”

“Hey, shorten my name down a bit, my besties call me Nep, Neppy-”

“Hey hey there, calm it down, I think Nep is good enough.”

The girl makes a smug spin in your chair.

“If you don’t move I’m going to push you out, don’t dodge my question.”

Nep sighs.

“Sheesh, I didn’t think you could be pushy…” she says jokingly.

The urge to sigh nearly overpowers you, but Neptune is a weird girl. She seems quite a bit older than her appearance gives off, and the D-Pads hairclips are strikingly similar to your CPU’s plus styled pins. Maybe she’s related in some way or knows more.

“Nep, are you related to Lady Purple Heart in some way?”

“Straight to the heavy stuff today eh?” she jokes as she slips out of your chair.

Your phone rings as you turn around.

Someone as far away as they can in this building wants a surplus Printer.

One of the loudest noises you’ve ever heard in your building makes a horrific metal shearing noise as you move to stop whatever madness Neptune has gotten herself into.

A voice rings out to the moving side of you, stopping you in your tracks.

Ring is a poor word for this, describing the beauty is one of the most difficult things you could write down.

The voice was like water running over silk, the slightest sort of vibration came off the back of the powerful female voice.

The voice was irresistible, but maintained the most majestic of airs. It didn’t seem the place for the overpowering- lust or not, rather a living, breathing attraction that slipped past whoever’s lips the voice belonged to. There was an innate kindness, a sort of motherly love that oozed from the finely aged tension. The sensory of everything happening is utterly overwhelming to your mind.

As you turn, a pin hits the collar of your loosely buttoned shirt. Surprisingly, the sensation is not sharp, it rather follows a clever slide into your shirt, slowly letting the picture in front of you unfold as it traces the center of your chest. The metal of the finely crafted black claw freezes the skin it touches despite your unhealthily high pulse. The hand retracts as you realize what is going on.

A woman just a few inches shorter than you brushes her bangs back as her voice follows.

“Do you reeeally have to go again sooooo soon?”

The hand slips over her polymer suit, resting on a metal piece of armor over her voluptuous hips.

What the fuck. Is Purple Heart. Doing in your office.

“Ooah, forgive me, I believe I surprised you.”

“What.” is all you manage out.

“I am CPU Purple Heart, or as you call me, Neptune.”

You unconsciously hang up the phone.

A purple flash follows as usual Neptune appears again.

“Hey you still going to leave me here or what dude?”

Seeing Nepu soothes you a bit, letting you ask regain the ability to speak. Your heart is still racing.

Nepu grabs your hand. Your hand.

Her little fingers grasp about your palm and her palms cover over the sides of your trapped hand.

“I’ll drag you back into this office, too much work and no play will kill someone!”

You recoil for two reasons, first, that it's called a job for a reason and second; you have never felt that sweet, warm touch that she just gave you. Neptune gets smug when she sees your expression.

“HAH!~ Office guy is a lame-o around cute girls isn’t he!”

“HEY! Stop that Nep, I’ll schedule that work to tomorrow!”

Nep spins out on her chair, pressing into the back of the seat.

“That's more like it!” she says with a giant grin.

The days fly by with Neptune around, she doesn’t care at all that she spends nearly every day in a tiny, overcrowded office with some guy she doesn’t even know the name of, it just feels nice to have a similar soul around. The weekend comes far too quickly for a work week. The clock ticks down to 5 o'clock as you sit with Neppy playing video games as usual.

“Nepu, would you want to visit each other over the weekend?”

Nep gives you a tremendously smug look, following with:

“Maybe, what are we gonna do on the couch? Pomf~”

Your face turns beet red, what the hell is on this girl’s mind?

Nepu is rolling on the ground she’s laughing so hard, when she finally gets off the ground she still can’t stop laughing at you.

You move to speak but Nep stops you with a giant smile.

“Oi Oi, it’s fine I’ll drop by later today, just give me an address!”

Neptune leaves before you do, you pause for a moment. You feel… light headed, among many things. That girl’s face is emblazoned in your mind, it’s a sensation you just can’t push away or let go of. She is cute, and having a Goddess in your office playing video games is an insane revelation that has taken all day to settle into. Your request to hang out was innocent but… now it doesn’t feel so. Your heart beats like a machine gun just thinking of Nep.

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The doorbell rings on your spartan apartment at about 7, you open the door to a beaming Neptune. She wastes no time setting up in the corner of your room. Round after round, you feel the nervousness of earlier fade with each laughing fit you share.
It's about 11 when Nep complains.

“Hey you’ve got snacks right?”

You didn’t particularly plan ahead, you had only been home long enough to clean.

“There is a convenience store right down the road, wanna go?”

Nepu quickly grabs her tiny backpack and drags you out the door. The nights of Planeptune are much different than one in the countryside, the great city puts out enough light that it seems like an eternal twilight, especially given the pleasant purple tinge. Nepu thumbs through her phone, giggling occasionally at whatever she’s looking at.

The friendly, familiar ring of entering the store door is a marker in your mind. Nepu tells you to get energy drinks, pudding, chips and some Mountain Morning Condensation. You go the extra mile and grab a package of frozen pizza, Nep disappeared the moment she gave you her orders. She reappears at your side and the cashier gives you a subtle thumbs up.

Nepu is quiet on the way home, she seems to squirm on occasion and gets lost in thought to the point where you have to keep her in the right direction or from running into things. When you get back she asks you to start the pizza and disappears into your room quickly.

What is wrong?

You enter the room to an adorable sight which hasn’t left your mind since. You figure it's a good time to say your piece.

“Nep, can I call you Nep-ko or Nepucchi?”

Nep cracks a nervous smile and says:

“Well of course the Main Character would get a cute nickname! But I like either.”

Her hands are seemingly tied behind her back. Is there something there?

You’ve never seen this disposition from Nep, but she nervously stands and walks up to you, her purple irises radiant in the dim, reflecting the dual PC screens of the room as she looks aside. From behind her back she pulls out a heart shaped box, with an impromptu note tied to the top of it.

“I- I think I- like you. I’ve never had to say this, well to a guy.”

You peeked at the note, it bore a giant heart with two chibi characters kissing.
Your hands cover the other’s around the box of chocolates, her pulse is racing. It would be a lie to say that yours was not running away as well. You share a moment with no speech, just two hearts hammering out a quiet love song. You take the box easily from her loosening nervous hands, setting it on the desk and take Nep’s small fingers into your palms.

“I didn’t think I muted you!” says Neptune with a nervous giggle.

You’re not sure what to do. You just go for it.

Neptune’s tiny body fits in your arms almost like a toy would, you speak nearly right into her ear.

“I like you too Nepucchi!”

You can feel the tension leave her muscles as she wraps her arms around you.

“I guess we should go on a date right?” you say.

“I don’t know what we would do…”

“Really? I think I know exactly what we could do!”

Nep pauses and looks into your eyes.

“We could stay up late, and play video games and-” Neptune cuts you off.

“...Eat pudding and laugh at stupid memes and bad players?”

“Exactly!”

Neptune lets out a cheer and jumps into your arms, kissing you on the cheek.

“Well let's get going office guy!”

“Don’t you want to know the name of the person you just confessed to?”

“Hasn’t mattered up to this point!” responds Nep with a giant grin.

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Nep wastes no time in getting games rolling again, a few matches in she pokes you during an interlude.

“Hey!”
“What?”

Nep grabs you by the loosely buttoned collar and plants a giant kiss on your lips. The sensation is… beautiful but overwhelming. Her thin, warm and wet kiss tastes vaguely of the soda you bought, but her cherry blush as she pulls away covers her face. Her small hands clasp the sides of your face, covering your similarly hot cheeks. She looks aside towards your screens, covertly pressing the ESC key twice on both of your keyboards, leaving the match as she plays with a hanging strand of purple hair from the explosion that makes up her hair-do.

As Nepu finishes curling the lock around her fingers she asks:

“Hey you wanna watch something together?”

“Like?”

“Oh, maybe just an anime or something…”

“Choose your favorite!”

You see that trademark excited and smug look creep into Nep’s face as she clicks around her computer. Sharing a single chair would be awkward if Nep didn’t conquer your lap. You have no idea what the show was about, the only memory you had was of Nepucchi’s soft hoodie dress impressing on your chest. Nep is flat chested, but still retains a very feminine figure through her thoroughly curvy lower body. She catches your gaze and leans her head into yours. Your eyes meet Nepucchi’s in a soft trance, the girl doesn’t even think before making her move.

Your cheek is alight from Nepu’s soft kiss, your hands rest on her lower back; your mind is screaming to pull her closer.

Just… A… Bit…

WHAM!

You’re in a pile on the ground, the laughing helps break the tension. Nep sits crosslegged for a bit as she takes your hand, both of you sitting on the floor for a moment. Nep’s vibrant smile is just like her usual personality, shining and exuberant.

“Nep… You really love me?”

The girl levers off the ground, tackling you. Her eyes lock with yours, before they slide away. Is that a bit of shyness you see? Nep’s tiny arms clench around your neck, trapping you for the most subdued confession in the universe.

“I do, I love you…I love my lil sis too, but you’re something special…”

You want so badly to tease this shy side you never see.

“Anything in particular…?”

“Wh-why?” Neptune’s face is bright red.

You look expectantly at Nep who caves easily.

“I like, well… I like everything about you, your laugh, your smile, your smell… even if you don’t smile as much as I wish you would, it makes every grin a gift...”

Her face gets a bit more serious.

“I’ll make you confess too! I-I can be needy!”

You hold a pudding cup out.

“Yeah- memhmhm-” (she swallows half the pudding mid statement)

“I’m kinda tired…”

Nep looks discouraged.

“Hey what happened to staying up late?”

“Nep it’s like three in the morning.”

Your beloved Nepu’s personality does a 360 in that heartbeat.

“No way! Histy is gonna be mad when I get back at noon!”

“Nep…”

You can see a ghost of concern return to Nep’s eyes.

“You wanna share this pillow?”

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The pillow offers just a few inches between your face and Nep’s yet your hands spend that little space to become a tangled mess. Nep’s hand feels so delicate, yet at home in your grasp. A rosy blush inhabits the space under Nep’s eyes. Her soft breath puts you to sleep like a mother’s heart would.

You wake up with Nep curled into your arms. You let the scene be, the sun peeks through the blinds at you two, entangled in the other. Her parka dress is hiked up on a side, you recover her thigh and try to slip away.

You nearly faceplant as a hand grabs your ankle.

“Don’t leave me!”

Nep is on her feet instantaneously, pulling the last bits of gear into her pack. Breakfast is simple, but your Nepucchi is ever ready to steal your lap.

“Are you gonna walk me home?”

“Well it’s the weekend, I guess I’ve got the time.”

Nep’s side is a wonderful place to be as you walk, her head bumps into your side as you traverse the city. Nepucchi’s diminutive size fills your heart with a million feelings, mainly telling you to hold her like today was your last day alive. The ground entrance of the Basilicom is huge and beckoning, as a central corporate office is. Nepu tugs you in for a final smooch before whispering:

“I’ll see you at work, I’m gonna miss you.”

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Nep was right, the weekend was agony without each other, but you made it to Monday all the same. You waited patiently for Nep’s arrival. The minutes ticked by, turning to hours.

You sigh, a heavy weight on your chest before venturing off to finally fix that computer.

As you return, your knees don’t fit under the desk, on top of which, your desk squeals.

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“Surprise!”

Nep jumps out, trapping you in a hug.

“Whaddya want to do today?”

“Same as always!” Nep says with a starry gleam in her eyes.

You wrap a hand around the back of her head, another around her body and hold her there for a while.

She’s your Neptune, the only one for you.
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