AN: It includes impregnation and rape topics, but this is not as explicit.

Chapter 3: Guardians

It has passed many years since the disappearance of Naruko…

Tsunade was sitting behind her desk doing paperwork, filling missions, approving D-ranks. Just work that really did not matter. Naruko was sometimes in her mind. She always thought people should have paid more attention, they should have helped to give her better conditions. She heard stories about her, how cheerful she was despite everything that happened to her.

- "Hokage!" – Koharu went into Tsunade's office.

- "What is up?" Tsunade said as she was watching one of the three elders in Konoha Council.

- "Here's the report the council has finished after researching the old scrolls, please, read it carefully," Koharu said as she let down the report on her desk.

- "Ha, finally something that is less than five pages," Tsunade said.

- "You should be worried, there is no much information, it is all based on legends but the victim's corpse corresponds"

"Archemore…" – Tsunade read the title.

"Without a hostess, Archemore appears to be only a flower, and this flower has purple petals and two stamens surrounded with six smaller flowers below. The stamens are thick and they appear to be always wet from the top and the flowers below carried just pistils, however, they were pointing sharp."

- "Huh…" Tsunade sighed, as she continues skimming.

"However, then it is said the Archemore was bonded to goddess Kaguya Ōtsutsuki, and such bond allowed her to have infinitive control over her vines and plants. Archemore was a sexual demon, and as such, she feasts on humans' chakra through intercourse which leads to death. The more vitality, the greater her vines and gardens."

- "Why am I getting this?" she wondered, so she passed the page.

- "The victim had no fluids left, none of them, no blood, no water, his organs were digested. It appeared that he was vacuumed. The victim must have been in a sealed environment, where he could be sucked in. That is not the thing, it is what we found left inside his body."

- "What was that?"

- "It was mold, but musky, salty. It was bizarre and out of this world, the only explanation would have been that the victim got sucked by the flower. This is dangerous, and as it relates to the goddess Kaguya," Koharu.

- "Well, well, hold on, you're assuming all these things as if they had happened. But there have been months we haven't seen her at all. There have not been any more victims either" Tsunade said as she stood up.

In the middle of this conversation, Sakura burst in, and Tsunade faced her, as Sakura was completely confident in her sight.

- "Tsunade… I wish to speak with you," she said. The busty blonde-haired woman could tell that Sakura was actually nervous, for one.

- "Do you require something, Sakura?" Tsunade replied in a way a leader can only speak with

- "Tsunade, I ask of you to take me as your apprentice," said Sakura, with her heart beating hard and fast, it took all her courage just to stand in front of the woman.

(Outside Konoha)

Naruko was walking down the path to Konoha, she swayed her hips as she was getting closer to the gates. Her petals-like wings were fully open as the thorns were ready to be released at any second. The flowers on her back were blooming and showing off their maws, as tendrils came out from them. A couple of tendrils was brushing against her bare legs, the other two on her arms and the last two on her hair going over to her face. They were feeling her, just to let her know that they were her with her.

- "I am here with you, I am here. Shush, soon we will feed…" Naruko softly moaned. {We need more humans…} the voice echoed to them.

Her fiery and luscious red hair flowed down her bare green shoulders, as other tentacles were coiling around it, combing it. The stamens from the palms of her hands were stiffened from the ached and throbbed lips on her hands. The sticky substance that covered the stamen always made her body feel a tingle.

- "To feed more…" she whispered. {Not only to feed off the male's chakra, but also to have ones to please us, to guard us…} the voice said as it rushed Naruko with images of females, all the girls she had ever met before turning.

Naruko groaned softly, she wanted to protest, the world around was melting away on the revelation. She fell on one foot without understanding what was happening. Archemore let more pheromones out, as Naruko smelled the sweaty scent and she could not prevent from taking a deep and heavy sniff…

{You can have all of them, you can get any woman that you want} the voice whispered, as Naruko moaned.

As she panted sharply, she forced herself as her body was reacting to the thoughts. She decided to continue walking. Outside, her sweaty body was only covered by very few leaves covering her giant breasts, and going down to show her waist while a flower kept covered her crotch area covered and secured.

In the distance, there were two gatekeepers at Konoha's entrance, Izumo Kamizuki, and Kotetsu Hagane. They were playing cards ignoring the figure that was approaching them from the distance, at a slow pace, measuring every single step. These gatekeepers were bored, nothing ever happened at Konoha's entrance. Most spies would have their hideouts or different methods to get into the village without detection.

- "Hey Izumo, when is something interesting going to happen?" complained Kotetsu.

- "Be careful with what you wish for" replied Izumo with a smirk.

- "I just miss those days when we would run around and catch Naruko…" Kotesu said while Izumo replied, "Yes, I miss her too, such a trouble maker but at least made our days more entertained."

Their thoughts were soon interrupted when they felt someone approaching, the female and curvy figure was just a few meters away, they could feel how her heart was pounding in anticipation, she was walking seductively towards them. So great was her need, she looked as she was stalking them. Before they were able to speak, Naruko came closer.

- "Hi there…" Naruko whispered as they gasped at her legs. "How do you like the roots of Eden?" Naruko asked softly as she referred to the engorged members coming out of her arms, Archemore.

- "The what?" Izumo answered as he struggled.

- "These two are the roots of Eden, Archemore" Naruko repeated firmly. "Eden is birth, fully realized, the brilliance of Mother Nature's call, and we give them life… Now you see, mammal?"

- "Mammal…?" Izumo said, "Ok, yes, sure, they are pretty…"

- "Pretty?" Naruko stared down at him angrily. "You look at them and they are just pretty?"

Naruko came closer to him as she touched his face with her clawed hands, caressing it, lifting it up to her. He began to sweat as the tentacles slithered out from her body coiling around his limbs and rising him up, making him stand right up to her. His limbs were spread out.

- "I'm Naruko, and they are not just pretty…" Naruko. He then recognized her face on that greenish skin. Naruko moved him closer to her, she leaned in and kissed him, her tongue probing its way inside his mouth.

Izumo choked, her tongue nearly reaching the back of his throat, before something strange happened, a wonderful taste exploded onto his palette, like honey. Sweet and glutinous, it flowed out of Naruko. Itzumo swallowed reflexively taking in more of the delicious substance, but without realizing the toxin Naruko's saliva had.

Naruko's eyes glowed bright green, radiating the energy of the venom, the soul of the demon. He tried to scream, but suddenly the petals encased him next to her as she jumped backward. His warm body was touching her bare chest within semi-closed petals.

- "Let him go!" Kotetsu shouted as he threw kunai at her, but it was useless. She had disappeared into the forest.

Inside the embrace, on a top of a tree, Izumo's heart was pounding, his throat was throbbing with her tongue thrusting inside. The petals were pushing them both together, voices were echoing within Naruko to finish her job, as she then did. Naruko exploded with pleasure, as the corpse body left the embrace.

- "Ahhh!" Naruko grinned evilly as the corpse hitting the ground made some noise thus calling Kotetsu's attention. "Yes, come…" Naruko moaned as the tendrils from her back had pierced a near tree, making Naruko sense the bushes surrounding her.

Naruko was eager, as other vines began to whisper to her, "the other mammal is approaching momma". She was laying on the branch with patience, as she had fallen onto the branch with her clawed hands and feet claws onto it. In minutes, Kotetsu came to the tree Naruko was.

Kotetsu initially started looking around for her, ignoring the fact she was just above him, but Naruko's moans made it obvious, so he raised his sight over the lady's face on the edge of the branch.

- "Where the hell are you hiding him? Bring him back?" Kotetsu said down below. Nonetheless, it did not take him much time to see the corpse on the soil, vines were surrounding the corpse as they continued to feed off.

- "Fuck…" Kotetsu backed off.

- "No need to be afraid," Naruko said from above.

- "What have you done to him?"

Suddenly, she moved behind him, Naruko was definitely fast, as the tendrils were coiling on her feet, arms and hair. Naruko's eyes were shining as she was getting excited about what was about to happen. Her stamens were emitting her pheromones through their pointing ends.

- "I just want us to be together…" he said without thinking as he was fighting some intense, interior battle that was forcing him into a rageful submission of fruits and lust.

That is right, she said as she moved her hands over his chest from the back, tearing over the clothing. Kotetsu fell down, as she moved over to him. His lips were so closed, as he gazed intently into her eyes.

Tendrils around her limbs were getting tighter around her, pushing and emanating more pheromones, Naruko could hear them laughing, snickering, knowing the hidden joke of a murder: "kill him, mommy! kill him no! Suck him dry!". The flower on Naruko's crotch area was detaching as the petals were pulling off from her skin.

- "What are you going to do…? Stay away from me…!" Kotetsu said as he was crawling backward, with a kunai in his hands.

- "We never kill… We just feed…" Naruko said.

- "Yeah, right, and Itsumo… What…"

- "He could not satisfy us enough," Naruko said as her body could not withstand murdering him for much longer, it was making her heat far too intense. She had to kill and she had to kill him now.

- "You must be thirsty, so much running and jumping to get to where I was… What about something to drink?" she offered to him, she grinned, as Archemore on her right hand began to ooze fluids on her hands with such an intense musk smell.

Naruko fell on the ground, as she began walking on her feet and hands over to him, slowly and smiling. He could see the razor-thin teeth on her jaw. He could not fight for ever, he was giving up, as Naruko did her best to not spill the fluids on her right-hand palm.

In moments, she reached to him and pushed her fingers into his throat, the fluids rushed through his digestive system faster than any medicine, and suddenly to his blood stream. Naruko's pheromones were swimming about his head, intoxicating in a most subtle fashion. He was going to break in any second.

However, just before it did, Kotetsu managed to take a kunai out, as the last movement to defend himself. Kotetsu did not want to die like his partner, no, he was going to stop it, and he raised the kunai without Naruko noticing and stabbed her on her arm. The metal was crushing into her.

- "Hssss!" Naruko hissed as she moved forward and on top of him. Vines from the ground were removing the kunai out of her arms as roots were forming and reshaping her smooth skin once again.

- "It is useless, I am nature…"

Kotetsu pushed himself out as he tried to run, escaping from her. Naruko had a massive grin on her, as Archemore grew longer from her palms, moving like whips as she then let them out to the running ninja. Kotetsu saw the whip as it had thorns on them, right next to his left leg, but managed to dodge the first one. Naruko stood up and moved faster this time.

- "Not bad…" Naruko grinned as she moved forward.

Naruko sliced her stamens out like whips, and Kotetsu dodged it again, ducking low, and then his fist shot outward. Naruko did not see it coming, but one tendril moved faster than her thoughts and stopped it right in the air. Naruko then kicked him as long strands of vines lifted him off the ground and held him up in mid-air. Vines acted fast, as they coiled around her legs, lifting her up just to where he was.

The stronger vines reduced his clothing to shredded ribbons which fluttered to the ground. A sudden shiver ran up as the pheromones he swallowed finally were affecting him. Kotetsu began to struggle and whine pitifully when Naruko was just with him. Naruko's overpowering arousing scent got even stronger.

Suddenly, Naruko could feel her fluids bubbling back on her throat as her tongue was coming out from the menacing teeth, she gazed intently into his eyes, pleading for his body. Naruko then kissed him, as she screamed very loudly inside of her mind. Her heart broke with intense desire, willing the poison within her to release itself into him, to cripple him, to kill him. Petals were closing once again, moving over to him as she was on top of him.

{Kill, kill, kill! Yes, oh yes, suck, suck harder mommy!} the little vines surrounding her were chanting in her mind.

The purple petal started to sink into the soil, until Naruko drinks and sucks out of him the chakra. His body was growing wrinkles inside the tight embrace, and suddenly, her arm came out of the dirt, as she pushed herself out. Tendrils were cleaning her body as she moved back to the pathway to Konoha. Behind she left two corpses with their veins filled with the poison that replaced their human fluids.

(In Konoha)

Streets were flooded with people both shinobi as well as civilians, everyone was busy with the errands, and Naruto was among them. Naruko's petals covered her green body with a jelly substance. Her long red hair was still coming down her back, covering the six plants that rested there.

In other words, she thought this way she would go through the streets on her bare feet. Pheromones were exploding from herself in a form of powerful gaseous magenta light.

- "Who's that?" people were whispering.

As she moved through the main street, she passes through the villagers, some are blushing and are affected by her pheromones, but not too much as Naruko was keeping control of it, she wanted to be discreet. Nonetheless, her vines wanted her to smash them all, rage was building it, thus she moved through the dark alleys.

- "Awh…" she moaned as her petals moved back open, and then she affixed herself on the walls, moving upwards to the roof. "The sun…" she moaned as it was bathing her body, and then she saw the Hokage tower and moved there.

It was about time the Anbus were informed of the missing guards, so she had to move fast. Even when she possessed no chakra, the Hyuuga could detect her.

Naruko moved through the roofs of some buildings, but quick enough she moved back to the streets, and without realizing Shikamaru and Kiba were walking down the street, reminiscing about their recent mission. Naruko bumped with Kiba randomly, but she said nothing and moved away. Naruko didn't want to comfort him, she already did much, so she started to walk away.

- "Hey!" Kiba yelled as that move was rude to him.

- "Let it go, it is nothing," Shikamaru said as he noticed how she had ignored him.

- "No, someone's gotta teach this prick some manners!" Kiba said as he stomped off after the girl, but Shikamaru held him back.

- "No way!" Kiba said. "You gotta apologize," he said.

Naruko felt Kiba's hand on her right shoulder which also made her stop in the middle of the pathway, and she looked back, it was Kiba who was very angry as he was grinding his teeth. Thankfully, Naruko's red hair covered most of her face.

{Kill him…, kill, kill him} as the vine was whispering, but here it was crowded, she cannot make a scene.

- "Apologize for walking down on the soil…?" Naruko giggled which pissed Kiba off some more.

- "You think you're funny," Kiba said as he tightened his grip on Naruko's purple petal, but Naruko got out of his grip by spinning to his back, grabbed his right arm, and pinned him to the ground with her left hand clutching Kiba's skull and her right hand holding Kiba's hand. Everyone was now looking at her.

Naruko suddenly let her petals show her curvy figure as she tasted a bit of Kiba, just to taste the human. Naruko held back from devouring him, and meanwhile, they were holding, she just let him go, and disappeared.

- "The Hokage tower…" she whispered as she disappeared.

Moments after, Naruko continued with her trip back to the Hokage Tower, but she was she passes by different people, most were males, but whenever the females were passing by, something tickled within her. She did not know why, but her stamens would release more of her pheromones and her body would turn warm. Inside her four massive petals covering her body, she was turning wet, the vines were teasing her.

- "What you want…?" Naruko whispered as she walked by, and that is when she realized about a place she once used to visit often.

- "Ichiraku…?" Naruko whispered.

{Your memories are resounding out of this place…}

Naruko decided to go, as she followed the vines' suggestions, she was feeling hunger, but it was different from just chakra, it was something more. Her body was burning as she came closer, once she sat down on the bench, she saw her… Akame…

- "Hey, can I help you with anything?" she said, as she looked at her

{We like her…} the voice said as it resounded to one of Naruko's memories. Naruko's body began to felt something welling up inside of her, a strange tingling and bubbling of her very essence. A soft, spicy, musk scent began to ooze from the palms of her hands. Naruko then found herself gazing into Akame's eyes.

Akame inhaled slowly, looking back at Naruko. The contact's heart race, her chest rose and fell quicker. She was unable to ignore Naruko and then she moved her face closer to her.

{Kiss her} the voice was very firm, as Naruko leaned in and brought her lips to Akame's. Akame murmured, her lips robbing, the kiss got more desperate.

Everything happened fast, vines wrapped around different parts of Akame's body, arms, legs, hips and waist. She was able to pull one arm out of the vine but another one quickly took its place.

{We like her… I want to taste…} Archemore spoke as Naruko saw her behind the bar lifted.

- "Ah, let me go!" Akame protested as the vines were moving around like independent appendages. Twirling around her skin and going underneath her outfit. Naruko could feel what they were feeling. Naruko moved over to the prey, or that is what she thought she would name her.

{Don't be afraid…} the voice echoed. {You want her…} the voice continued as her body was not lying.

Naruko's tongue was growing back as her saliva thickened and grew thick with pheromones, as she was getting aroused even though she never thought she would like girls just as males. Nonetheless, it seemed the demon flower she merged with had no distinction.

- "Let me go…! I don't want to die…" she yelled as Naruko then kissed her. Akame let out a gasp when Naruko's full lips swift pressed against hers in a sudden passionate kiss. Her tongue took the chance to go inside her mouth, pushing deep, but as deeper as with her male partners.

Naruko could not hold back as she pushed her and then made her fall on the floor. Naruko was on top of her now naked human body. Akame could not deny Naruko was such a beautiful one, anyone would kill to be with her.

The petals were slowly moving over the two, covering their bodies entirely, and leaving a purple mass inside the restaurant. Tendrils shot out, and moved to the ceiling, hiding it away, so no interruptions would ever happen. Inside, a pool of liquid soon filled the both of them, however, Naruko kept Akame alive as she provided oxygen with her forever kiss.

Moments after, Akame felt a strange surge of energy from within her guts as Naruko continued to kiss her. The energy started as a rumble, like bubbles were building up inside her abdomen, then came pain. The entire inside of her body burned like fire. The heat radiated throughout every nerve and cell, scorching her from head to toe.

- "Oh god, it huts… Someone make it stop" she yelled through moans, as tendrils were pushing inside her.

Nonetheless, instead of digesting her as it happened with humans, Naruko was actually feeding and nurturing her inside with nutritious liquids as from within, she was being pumped with others to catalyze her changes.

The turning of a human mammal into nature took time, and it also consumed lots of energy, but after 12 hours, inside the ceiling down in the back of the restaurants, something was emerging from the petals, as they slowly opened to reveal slime and ooze to the ceiling when the new body spit out, naked and covered in the same slime.

- "Aw…" she moaned as her eyes opened.

(To be continued?)