Final Question: Your love? Your lives?

"Hello everyone and welcome to Nakano's View with me, Nakano Shujin."

In the television studio where the show was being shot, the crowd loudly cheered. Nakano waited until there was quiet before continuing. "Tonight, we have a pair who should be familiar to everyone here. A former super-idol and her doctor wife who made waves as part of the school idol group μ's together, followed by an explosion onto the scene together and a memorable reveal of their relationship. These two are a great pair and good friends of mine, so please give a warm welcome to Yazawa Nico-san and Nishikino Maki-sensei."

The two women walked onto the stage amid thunderous applause. Nico waved to the audience while her wife simple smiled as the pair took their seat opposite the show's host.

"It's great to have you two on the show, thank you for coming."

"We're glad to be here Nakano-san," Nico replied, smiling at the audience.

"Thank you for having us," Maki bowed slightly.

"So, the two of you have been keeping busy. Yazawa-san, you recently appeared in 'The Hidden Child', how did that happen?"

"Ah, well Eli… Ayase recommended me actually. Apparently when the character was described to her she immediately thought of me."

"And how was your first time acting?"

"Difficult, but it was really fun to act with Eli and Nozomi, so I certainly enjoyed it overall."

"Another thing to add to the resume, it must be great to try these new things."

"Yup, ever since I stopped being a full-time idol, I've been trying to do a bit of everything."

"And Nishikino-sensei, I understand you've been helping with some of your friends' films as well."

Maki twirled her hair slightly, nodding. "They asked for some professional input on some of the medical scenes. It wasn't anything major."

"I see, though from what Ayase-san has had to say, you have been a great help to some of their projects."

Maki flushed slightly and Nico grinned brightly.

"So Yazawa-san, how have you been finding your transition? It's been about two years now since you moved on from being a 'full-on' idol."

"Yup, it's mostly been a lot calmer. I spend less time going up and down the country. Whenever I do a concert it's great to see all my fans still willing to come and listen to me."

Maki laughed a little, "I've been happy to have my wife around a little more ever since."

Nico put a hand to her mouth, as though to hide her words from Maki, "She's a little possessive." The audience laughed appropriately. "But seriously, I think I stopped at a good time. Ya know what some people say about stopping while you're on a high? I think I managed that. I still think about how much fun it was and am happy to do a bit of it again, every now and then. But now I get to do other things, like the movie, or classical singing. Though I remember one time I did a classical concert and the conductor commented that the audience was an awful lot younger than normal." Another laugh sounded from the audience.

"So you've been enjoying your new life overall?"

"Definitely."

"Now, speaking of new things, I hear you two adopted recently."

Nico nodded enthusiastically, "Yup, two wonderful siblings, Yuuji-kun and Rena-chan. Rena is so cute! And Yuuji is a cool older brother. They are the best we could imagine!"

Maki laughed at her wife's excitement. "We thought that, as we'd been married for nearly ten years, it was about time. They really are are a sweet pair."

"How old are they?"

"Yuuji is twelve and Rena is eight," Maki replied.

"And did you say they were blood siblings?"

"Yes," Maki nodded. "When we showed an interest in Rena, she shook her head and said she wouldn't go anywhere without her big brother."

"She's really wonderful, she started calling us 'Mama' and 'Mother' really quickly!" Nico grinned brightly."

"How do they find it, being adopted by celebrities?"

"Their school friends find it cool I think," Maki said, chuckling. "And they know the value of things, having been brought up with relatively little."

"It's obviously tough to keep them away from reporters at times. Right after we adopted them, they were hounded a bit, but their teachers were great about it and we managed to keep them out of it for the most part," Nico explained. "We don't want them to have to deal with all of that just because of us."

"I see, well I promise I won't be trying to interview them any time soon. Now, we don't have too much time left, so is there anything else you would like to say?"

Nico nodded and turned to the nearest camera. "Everyone, thank you so much for your support. I know I say it a lot, but as a lesbian idol in a long-term relationship, it always meant so much to see how much people were willing to support us. Even now, when I'm no longer there all the time, I'm really glad how many people give us their best wishes. So once again, everyone thank you!"

The audience cheered. "And with that… ladies, I think you have a little something for us..."

The pair nodded and stood, stepping over to a rather conspicuous screen, which slid aside to reveal a grand piano. Amid the cheers, Maki took her seat and glanced out over the audience. In the front row, she saw Honoka and Tsubasa with two children, a girl and boy, sat next to them. The children waved at their mother on stage, who smiled brightly back.

Maki then looked up at Nico, as the audience quieted in anticipation.

"Shall we give 'em what they want?" Nico asked, her smile broadening.

"Let's go," Maki replied as she turned to the piano and began the slow key presses of the song.

"Beauty at your fingertips."

Maki let her fingers flow over the keys, her eyes flicking briefly to the gold ring which was the only adornment of her hands.

"Crimson hair and crimson lips."

Her smiled grew bright as she recalled every day of her life with Nico.

"I wanna watch from by your side."

Nico was there… so close for all of it.

"Such a shame for both our pride."

Their pride be damned, they had each other.

"I want to stay right here with you."

It was laughable, really, the changes from the old them to who they were now.

"I promise you it's true."

It was indeed.

"Here's an offer that you can't refuse."

Maki really could not.

"Will you be my muse?"

Maki gave a single whisper, inaudible to all but the woman in front of her, who stood, pointing one hand out to the audience, and the other behind her back. The hand pointing back was straight at Maki, a gold ring glinting slightly in the bright lights on the ring finger.

She gave a whisper to her dearest friend. Her lover. Her wife. Her...

"Yes."

...Nico.

Interview With and Idol: Fin

A/N: Oh boy this is done at last... phew...

Yeah, this is a lot later than I anticipated. Put it down to laziness, Danganronpa V3, sickness (I am still a little under-the-weather) and honestly not knowing what to put here. I had the idea of having the final scene be a different interview years down the line a while ago, but beyond that... not much. There were a few other things I had thought to include, e.g. them having children through the power of science... but it make a bit less sense in a setting without magic (my excuse when writing RWBY stuff) so it got removed and they adopted instead. And before someone tries to be clever, yes, it might be possible for two women to have a child together within a relatively short span of time, but that is a 'might' and I am now just making excuses and I am sure someone will try to argue this one way or another in a review and I don't have the energy to have said argument to why am I even discussing this here I'm going to shut up now.

As always, thanks to the reviewers, and the readers who stuck with me and my erratic (i.e. slow) updates.

But... yeah it's done. Not quite the same feeling of satisfaction as with Pink Like Posies of Falling Dusk but... eh, this isn't meant to be much. Just a load of fluff and shit... I don't know. Some people enjoyed it, and that's kinda the point. I don't think this is the greatest thing in the world but, eh... if it got some smiles, then my job as an emissary of Nico-Nii is done. So now, there's nothing left but my goodbye. Thank you again, all of you who have read this far. Thank you, thank you and farewell. 'Til the next time.

The Day is ended. What will the next Eternity bring?

E.D.