Yoshie is Fumi&#039;s mother.    She is very close with her niece Hanashiro Chizu and has a warmer relationship with her than she has with her own daughter. Yoshie finds Fumi to be distant despite her attempts to integrate herself in her daughter&#039;s life. She understands though that this is typical for a teenager.     She is good friends with Okudaira Shouko (Akira&#039;s mother). It is through their meeting and rekindled friendship that their daughters meet one another after ten years of separation. 

Fumi and Akira were close childhood friends until Fumi had to move away. Ten years after losing touch with each other, the two girls meet again as high school freshmen. The two struggle to reconnect after so much has changed, and both deal with the trials and tribulations of high school &mdash; sometimes independently and sometimes with each other&rsquo;s help. 
(Source: Anime News Network)

Fumi and Akira were best friends when they were little, with Akira always looking after the crybaby Fumi, but that all ended when Fumi's family moved away. Several years later, Fumi's family returned, and she and Akira happened to bump into each other on their way to school. They became friends again, quickly slipping back into old patterns. Shortly after, Fumi began dating a cool, attractive upperclassman who, coincidentally enough, had ties to Akira's current school, the prestigious Fujigaya Girls' Academy. 
(Source: Lililicious; updated from an early misreading of the school name Fujigaya, called Fujigatani in initial translations of the first chapters)
 
Note: Includes 10 extras chapters from the volumes.

Yoshie Manjoume