Hello, again! :) As I had suspected, I ended up being rather busy for a while there, but then my schedule cleared up a lot sooner than I had expected, even with Spy roping me into another story, lol. So, this update is not quite as late as I thought it would be. That's good.
For those of you who are also fans of twisted bonds, I'm still working on it, unfortunately, but with 27 volumes of the original manga in hand, I will be tearing right through that project as well and endeavor to make it worth the wait.
That all aside, I hope y'all enjoy! :)
Chapter Eleven: Making Love and Peace
Later that evening, Naruto was in Kurako's chamber, both of them stark naked as the two of them made out. Naruto was flat on his back, legitimately having no idea where his clothes went and not caring while returning this former tenant's passionate kisses with gusto.
"You have… no idea… how much I... need this," Kurako whispered between kisses. "How much… I've needed this~!"
Naruto chuckled warmly and rubbed the vulpine loli's back while giving her all the attention she could ask for. Kurako purred happily and started kissing a trail down to his neck and then his chest before grinding her loins against his. Many a hickey was left in her wake as she physically marked Naruto as hers, enjoying the feel of his warmth upon her skin and actually tasting him for the first time.
Already, her loins were aching for this you man for her to be claimed by him once and for all… and he was not about to disappoint her!
The blond in question guided his painfully-hard cock to her entrance and Kurako gladly lifted her cute, little rump for him, her tails rising up invitingly. Then, the vulpine loli let loose a guttural moan at the sensation of Naruto's massive cock stretching her inner walls to capacity. Her former vessel, meanwhile, bared his teeth at how deliciously tight she was. She dug through his memories and deliberately made the fit more snug than any other he'd ever experienced, didn't she? The naughty, little vixen~!
There was a long pause as Naruto and Kurako savored the moment, enjoying the feel of being joined as one, once and for all. Then, they both started to move. The two of them were in absolute perfect sync, Kurako descending as Naruto thrust into her and raising her adorable rump as he withdrew, the two of them meeting in the middle with a lewd thump.
Kurako mewled pathetically, overwhelmed by the pleasure coursing through her now laughably-tiny form. To think it would actually feel this good… to think it could, even! Fuck, she was already about to cum! Her breath was shallow, her loins burning as something in her core started to build up. Everything was getting so tight and her head was already spinning…
And then…
Naruto groaned at the sensation of Kurako's inner walls clamping down on him. Her lewd wail was like music to his ears and the thought of bringing such a mighty beast to orgasm so quickly admittedly made the blond feel rather proud of himself. He couldn't help but let out a chuckle. Then, soon after the vulpine demon-loli collapsed upon him in a panting heap, there were two poofs and the life blood drained from her face. (1)
"I am both excited and… terrified," she commented, her voice uncharacteristically timid. She didn't even manage to make him cum yet and now he's bringing in the reinforcements?! This was not at all going as she had imagined...
"Time for the alpha to assert his dominance," Naruto growled sexily, sending hot shivers up the poor thing's spine.
As if on cue, one of the clones took a position behind Kurako and his slick cock was prodding at her anus. Apparently, they were created with their dicks covered in her juices, not that she was complaining as the engorged member slid in without issue, stretching her to capacity just like the original. The other clone, meanwhile, grabbed a fistful of her orange locks and forcibly shoved his dick into her mouth. The act made her inner walls clamp down upon the original's dick in approval. Kurako could also taste herself upon his dick, all but confirming her assumption.
And then, they started to move… all three Narutos immediately started fucking her three holes without mercy, pounding her into oblivion and making her their bitch… and she loved every second of it. Not even five thrusts in, she already came again with a muffed wail of pleasure.
The original Naruto grunted in pleasure at the sensation of his little fox-loli's inner walls clamping down on him. Poor Kurako didn't even know which way was up anymore, her head was spinning from the blinding pleasure she felt! Then, when her orgasm faded, yet another wracked her to the core. She wailed again as the three Narutos kept up their unrelenting assault.
Naruto, however, was not able to keep it up for long; the constant fluttering of Kurako's inner walls sent him over the edge. With a roar and one more thrust, the original blond let loose, shooting his hot jizz as deep into Kurako's baby maker as humanly possible. The loli in question went utterly cross eyed, cumming again all over his dick once more.
The clones followed suit and blew their loads into her eager gob and anus soon after. But it didn't stop there. No, Naruto had every intention to try and knock her up, so he and his clones kept at it. The lewd squelching and wet slapping of flesh on flesh filled the room as Naruto and his clones renewed their assault.
Soon enough, with Kurako still cumming all over his still sensitive, still rock-hard bitch-breaker, Naruto and his clones blew another load inside each of her holes. The clones groaned in pleasure and withdrew. When they dispelled soon after, their first loads went with them.
But, the second ones did not… Naruto still didn't know why, but he noticed that happening whenever he dogpiled his wife and other mistresses. While the first discharge would always disappear with them, any other loads they blew thereafter would somehow stick around.
Now was not the time to dwell upon that, though, even if he wanted to. The memories he received from his clones left Naruto painfully hard and he needed once more to bust a nut inside poor Kurako.
Flipping them over Naruto pulled out, ripping a gasp and disappointed whimper from the poor girl. But then, she yelped and giggled when he flipped her over and pulled her towards him. "Time to finish you off," he growled into her ear, nibbling the tip enticingly.
Kurako mewled pathetically and then she let loose a loud guttural moan at the feel of Naruto entering her womanly folds once more. Her inner walls clamped down upon him once again as he bottomed out and her eight tails wrapped around him to show her approval. She very much liked that he was doing this from behind, now, and officially making her his bitch. Then, Naruto's arms slipped under Kurako and held her close. She wasn't going anywhere; she wasn't escaping this; he was going to utterly dominate her and do everything in his power to knock her the fuck up!
And so, he started pounding her once more. There was no warning, there was no time for her to adjust, there was no hint of even the slightest mercy… and Kurako loved it! She wailed again, brought to orgasm once more almost immediately. Naruto plowed right through it and kept pounding her, the leftover jizz of his previous loads trickling down Kurako's thighs as he ruined her for any other man.
As Kurko's orgasm faded the next one hit her like a truck… and the next… and the next, her inner walls desperately trying to drain his balls once more. Naruto simply couldn't take it. He was about to cum, but before he committed, his newest 'mate' decided to make it official.
"Bite down on my shoulder when you cum," she said telepathically, communicating through their bond as her voice failed her. "Hard enough to draw blood. I want you to mark me as your mate and no one else's!"
Though it was an unusual request, Naruto was more than happy to oblige. So, when Kurako came again, Naruto bit down on her shoulder as she had instructed and released his hot jizz deep within her baby-maker. Then, he hooked his hand under and around her other shoulder and pulled the demonic loli closer to him. With a roar of exertion, Naruto thrust into her with every last spurt to ensure as best he could that she'd bear his young.
With that, Kurako went utterly limp, her regeneration kicking in to stop the bleeding. But, despite her ability to heal his bite mark completely, a scar was left behind to signify that she was his.
Naruto chuckled warmly at the sight. Upon pulling out of her thoroughly-violated lower lips, he hugged her close and gave Kurako a goodnight kiss before letting sleep take him as well.
The next couple of days would prove relatively uneventful, save for many a good fuck, as three of Naruto's four 'guests' settled in. But, when their leader came to, that would change...
The first thing Cassandra felt when she slowly started waking up, three days later, was having a splitting headache, and soreness in places the poor woman didn't even know she had! The second thing she felt, was the bed she was lying on top of. It was so… comfortable. It lacked springs and she felt as if she were floating on clouds. She peeled open her eyes with a strenuous groan, and blinked the sleep out of them and frowned in befuddlement.
Was there a ceiling above her? Blinking again, Cassandra slowly pushed himself up until she was sitting on top of the mattress and looked around. She was in a room. A rather big room at that, with a wardrobe, cupboards and other assorted items. There was even a stand to mount her armor and sword on! And the bed she was lying on top of was a queen sized one.
That was when she felt it: the youki belonging to Roxanne, Uranus and most importantly her best friend Miranda.
"They're… still alive…?" Cassandra's bewilderment was palpable. Didn't Naruto kill them? Wasn't that why she could no longer sense them when they disappeared? She froze, sensing the youki belonging to Neideen and Sylvia too! What… just… what the hell was going on?!
She just had to find out!
With that thought in mind, Cassandra got up and marched on out of the room, and immediately went to get some damn answers.
Several minutes and turning around many corners later, Cassandra followed the youki aura that belonged to her best friend. Then, she came to a dead stop at the edge of a corner when she heard Naruto speak, "What's the matter?"
The Number One frowned with anger upon hearing his voice.
"Is Cassandra going to be okay?" Her anger melted away to relief when she heard Miranda reply. She was okay! Thank the gods!
"Absolutely," Cassandra frowned with utter confusion when she heard… fondness in his voice? Why on earth did he sound like that towards someone who tried to kill him? "She's a very strong lady. I have a feeling nothing short of death will stop her. You have a good friend in her; she went absolutely berserk and tried to avenge your, uh, 'death' when one of my clones brought you here, y'know."
"I...I know," Miranda replied with an ashamed tone, "and I apologize on her beha-"
"You don't need to," he interrupted with a chuckle, "It's completely understandable if you think about it from her point of view. Keep her close, treat her as you always do, and don't let her out of your sight. Good people like Cassandra are very rare to come by."
"While I appreciate the compliment, will someone please tell me what the hell I missed?!" The woman in question demanded as she stepped out into the open. Needless to say, Cassandra was getting rather antsy at the moment from all of the confusion she felt..
Her voice startled the living hell out of Naruto as he let out quite the impressive cry upon her speaking. Miranda merely jumped in surprise and quickly turned to her, but was ultimately relieved to see her best friend was up and walking again.
"Oh, you are awake!" Miranda chuckled sheepishly. "That's a relief. Oh, and to answer your question… well, as it turns out, Sylvia panicked and ran away upon realizing that Naruto… got her pregnant."
Cassandra blinked once, twice, thrice as Miranda's words slowly registered in her head, and when it did the woman's eyes slowly grew wide in absolute shock. "EEEH?!"
"Y-Yeah, that's what I expected you to do," The Number 36 said with a sheepish laugh, "I saw it myself and I still can't believe it. Neideen's pregnant, as well."
"B-B-Buh... that… that can't be right! The operation that turned us into hybrids made us barren!" Cassandra all but screamed. There's no way that can be true! And even so, their gash was held shut by crude stitching, their innards would fall out the moment they're cut!
"Apparently, Mr. Naruto here," Miranda gestured to the blond in question, who was standing behind her and waving awkwardly at the disbelieving woman with a nervous grin, "is capable of healing our stigma… and a side effect of that is restoring our fertility. He's completely human too. A different kind of human than we are used to seeing, but a human nonetheless."
"Bullshit!" Cassandra snapped as she glared daggers at him, "What he turned into was something no human can turn into! He has to be an Awakened Being of some kind!"
"That was Kurako," Naruto reminded the Number One with a sweating brow, "Y'know, the fox girl that separated herself from me, and kicked your ass?"
At that, the pointy-eared woman sweated bullets at the reminder, looking rather nervous. "...Ah. Her." Now that she thought about it, didn't that creature say she was the source… of… his… Cassandra's eyes grew wide with realization and remembrance. There was also the thick smell of iron when he transformed into that fox-like monstrosity. Then there's the fact he outright said his entire skin corroded off—which meant a whole lot of blood.
Which means that thick iron-like smell actually came from that form he donned. And it looked suspiciously like human blood.
"...Ohhhh shit," she cursed with utter dread in her voice at the realization the young man might be a human. Only humans and claymores like herself have red blood. Youma and Awakened Beings bleed purple.
"Y-yeah… he's… he's actually more like us," Miranda said with a worried look on her face. They were in a dilemma now. So far Naruto was accommodating them and treated them all in a friendly, but understandably-cautious manner. "Cassie, what are we going to do? We have our orders from the Organization, but we're not allowed to harm humans, no matter what."
"Fuck…" Cassandra grunted, her brain starting to hurt as she tried to think of an answer. Alas, that only resulted in her head starting to spin. "I… don't know."
"Well… just throwing this out there, but… you can just not go back?" Naruto suggested to them, "There's a very good chance no one will come looking for you here," he added after they looked at him with an inquisitive look.
Miranda frowned thoughtfully at that. Well, Riful of the West was here… there is a very good chance the Organization wouldn't dare send anyone after them into her own turf. The Woman of the West was rather territorial after all.
"What?" Cassandra gave him a look as if he said the dumbest thing ever.
Naruto just raised his hands, "It's just a suggestion." He shrugged, placing his hands in his pockets. "It does seem like the best option, after all. I may not know how well the Organization treats you ladies, but from what Neideen's told me, it's a little bit of good and mostly bad. I'm pretty sure if you were to go back empty-handed and told them that you took my head, and Sylvia wasn't alive, they wouldn't believe you and would want proof. And since people have seen Neideen and Sylvia already..."
"Saying that won't be an option…" a grave-faced Miranda finished. "They'd want undeniable proof that they're dead, or to bring them back kicking and screaming. And if the Organization was to find out that you were the one that healed their stigma and that we killed you, there is a very good chance they'll be very upset about it."
"...There are rumors going around that the Organization sends their most troublesome warriors on very difficult missions in the hopes of killing them off," Cassandra muttered nervously, "I can see them giving us very difficult missions if we report your death to them… and of your capability of healing our stigma. This is a very difficult situation I had not foreseen." And deserters are to be killed on sight. Both Neideen and Sylvia are deserters, despite the reasons they have.
While there are other options available to them, Cassandra simply could not think of one that would get them out of hot water. Except for staying here.
"To make matters worse for us," Miranda added, "Riful's also pregnant... I shudder to think of what she'd do if we followed through with our mission."
Like that, the lifeblood drained from Cassandra's face as she looked at Miranda in utter disbelief. Then, she snapped her head to Naruto and shouted, "ARE YOU INSANE?!"
The Abyssal Ones were dangerous enough as they were! The last thing this world needed was for the Woman of the West to get knocked up!
"To be fair, I was trying to secure Sylvia's safety… and Kurako was the one who got me into that mess in the first place," Naruto told the pretty woman in a calm and collected manner, "But it worked out in the end."
"In short, we are jolly well fucked," a female voice commented from behind Naruto and Miranda. They all looked to see that the woman who spoke was Uranus. She'd come by to check on her captain and overheard their conversation. "Also, yes, I can confirm that everything he and Miranda said is true… including what they said about Riful. I can't believe it, myself, but that baby bump is as real as it gets." (2)
"I need a stiff drink," Cassandra muttered, and let it filter in her body. She needed to get wasted after hearing that. The mere thought of Riful's rampage in the wake of them leaving her unborn child fatherless sent shivers down her spine. She felt sick to her stomach, now, from the sense of dread; to think they'd undoubtedly damn near brought an end to all human life in the world…
"And there's Kurako to consider, too… now that I'm not containing her anymore, she is also someone you don't wanna cross; that woman can literally wipe entire cities and much of the surrounding countryside off the map in a split second." Naruto added with a deep frown. He'll have to make sure that she doesn't do anything that might attract even more uninvited guests.
Cassandra took a deep, cleansing breath, before making her decision. "I'll talk to Sylvia and Riful… and Koo-ruh… Kurako, was it?" Naruto nodded and she continued. "We should at least try to clear up any misunderstandings between us. Where's Roxanne?"
"She's keeping to herself, last I checked, looking kinda jealous of your girls," Uranus replied, leering at Naruto. "She's still in the room you gave her and hasn't left since she entered. Can't say I blame her; she's wanted to start a family of her own since she was six, the poor thing. I can't imagine what's going through her head right now." (3)
"Right," Cassandra commented with a sigh. "We'll leave her be for now and check on her later." she then turned her attention to Naruto. "I guess it's off to the great hall, then."
"Well… we could head there," said Naruto, "but you're already kinda establishing friendly relations right now, y'know," he told the woman with a pointed look on his face. "I mean, you're here, talking to me in a calm, collected and respectful manner."
"Be that as it may, you're not the one who beat me within an inch of my life," Cassandra pointed out. "I should at least issue that scary-ass ginger an apology."
"Couldn't blame you for feeling that way if I wanted to," Naruto chuckled. "But, you have nothing to worry about. As it turns out, Kurako and I are still connected in a way: she's very well aware that you're here with me."
"And she's fine with that?" Miranda asked.
"Yeah, Kurako can detect malice a mile away… literally. If Cassandra or any of you were going to try and kill me, or hurt any of us, she would be the first to know… and the last thing you saw before you even had the chance to commit."
"Noted," Uranus chirped, plastering a grin upon her face. It did precisely jack shit to hide her nervousness upon hearing that, but she tried.
It wasn't like she could be blamed, though; she saw what that 'girl' did to the captain, and that she didn't even get a speck of dirt on her robes in the process. That made one thing abundantly clear to all of them: Kurako was more dangerous than even Cassandra by leaps and bounds. Even the lot of them combined probably didn't stand a chance against her alone, never mind Riful and Naruto on top of that!
"You can meet up with her later if you insist," Naruto assured. "I'm thinking we should meet up with Syl and clear things up between you and her first, though." Then, there was a brief pause. "So…" Naruto slowly looked between Cassandra, Miranda, and Uranus one by one, "just curious, but... are all you 'claymores' attractive? Because so far all of my encounters with you folks have been a 'yes'." Seriously. First Sylvia, then Neideen, then these ladies? All of them were sexy as all hell!
All three girls turned beet red at that, drawing a warm chuckle from the blond.
"Maaaybe," Uranus teased, after making a quick recovery, "So, you like what you see, I take it?"
"I would be lying if I said no," Naruto answered her with a hapless shrug and a sheepish chuckle, "And I know you are one of the girls who showed... more than a little interest in what Kurako was doing to me in the great hall…" He could tell that Uranus thoroughly enjoyed watching the fox girl sucking him off. Roxanne and Miranda showed the same interest as well, though they would both die before admitting it.
Cassandra squinted suspiciously at them. "...What did she do?" she asked; to be completely honest she wasn't sure if she wanted to hear it or not, but damn it! She was too curious!
Miranda covered her mouth as she cleared her throat, "You… um… don't want to know." she told her friend before looking away shyly.
"Eh?" Cassandra looked between her friend and Uranus, "Okay, now I'm really curious."
Miranda looked at her friend for a moment, sighed and pulled her down to whisper what Kurako did to Naruto in her ear. Slowly Cassandra's eyes grew as wide as saucers and her cheeks turned bright red in both arousal and mortification as her best friend went into… detail.
"Oh… oh my…"
"Yeah," Uranus grinned sheepishly, knowing full well what was going on through the Legendary Cassandra's head. "We pretty much thought the same way."
"And... she swallowed it?" Cassandra asked looking at her best friend and comrade with wide eyes.
"Every last drop," Uranus commented as she rubbed the back of her head with embarrassment. "I don't even know how she did it. She just… gulped it all right down without backing away."
Cassandra shuddered uncomfortably at that. The poor woman didn't know if she should be aroused or mortified.
"I'm surprised her moaning didn't wake you up, later that night," Miranda commented with reddened cheeks. "I couldn't sleep at all, because of it."
"Kurako did a number on her," Naruto pointed out to the Number 36. "I think nothing short of a building falling on top of her would have woken her up." then he gave Cassandra a small, but teasing smile, "I thought she looked rather adorable while she was sleeping, myself."
Cassandra could practically feel the steam rising from her cheeks, now feeling light-headed from how hard she was blushing. "Uh… right," the woman muttered, clearly embarrassed. Then, she decided to shift her focus on over to something else. "Um... you made a good point about seeing Sylvia," Cassandra said, eyeballing Naruto. "Since her disappearance was more or less the cause of all this, I would indeed like to clear things up."
"Sounds like a plan," the young man replied with a grin. "C'mon, I'll take you to her… do you want to be carried or walk normally?" Since her demeanor reminded him a bit of Hinata, Naruto decided he was going to tease with her a little and see what happens.
He didn't mean any harm in it or anything; it was just to ease her into being comfortable. The woman was still nervous around him, so the blond thought treating her like a normal human being would help in getting her to be comfortable around him.
"I... can walk just fine," she squeaked in embarrassment, much to Naruto's amusement.
A few minutes later, in her own bedchamber, Sylvia perked up. She could sense Naruto, Cassandra, Miranda and Uranus approaching from down the hall. She was being tended to by three clones who'd mostly been rather idle at the moment since she was feeling rather content with sitting on her bed. For the past half hour or so, the young tomboy had been thinking up names for her future child, but alas, she'd have to decide on such things later on.
"So, Cassandra herself has woken up…" the young woman let out a sigh as she knew Cassandra was bound to have a lot of questions for her, "...well, it was bound to happen sooner or later."
As she'd expected, Naruto and three of his four guests reached her bedchamber. Naruto knocked politely while entering and greeted his wife. "Hey, sweetie," he said. "How're you holding up?"
"Fairly well," Sylvia replied with a shrug. "I take it Cassandra wants to talk?"
"Straight to the point as always," Naruto chuckled. "Yeah. she wanted to see you for herself."
"Can't say I blame her," Sylvia giggled. "Let her in."
Naruto nodded and did just that. Cassandra, Miranda and Uranus all walked into the bedroom and saw the heavily pregnant Sylvia sitting on the bed with three other Narutos tending to her. The mohawk-haired girl gave Cassandra a sheepish wave.
"Uh… hi?"
"I… cannot believe it," Cassandra whispered in utter shock.
"I couldn't either at first," Sylvia replied with a nervous chuckle. She let out a content sigh, thinking back on how she got here. "To think I of all people would become a mother at all… let alone under such inconceivable circumstances. But, here I am… sitting in a fucking castle with a baby growing in my belly, thinking up names for the little guy. Still haven't decided on one, yet." Sylvia giggled and then she addressed her hubby. "So… have you given them the offer to heal their stigma yet?"
"No, not yet," he replied with a shake of his head. "I've been holding back on it, to be honest. Just so I can think of a better way of easing the process of healing them in." He healed Sylvia and Neideen when they were butt ass naked and he would have to do the same to them. He just needed to find an easier way to say it without saying, 'Yeah, to heal your gash, you need to strip down naked' or something along those lines.
"Not surprising," the young woman commented with a shrug, "I heard Cassandra can be rather shy."
"I kinda guessed," he chuckled.
"You should tell them though just to get it out of the way. Neideen sure didn't hesitate," the pregnant woman pointed out.
"That's because she's Neideen," Naruto emphasized. Said woman was like the love child of Jiraiya and Anko! But then he shrugged, "But yeah, I'm planning on telling them soon. Now that Cassandra's awake I can get the other two and explain what needs to be done."
"It doesn't involve having sex with you, does it?" Cassandra deadpanned.
"No," Naruto chuckled.
"You do have to at least be topless, though, so he can see what he's doing," Sylvia pointed out.
"I don't mind," Uranus chimed in with an uncaring shrug. "After what we put him through, I don't see any harm in letting him see a little bit of skin as reparation."
"I bet you don't," Sylvia said with a roll of her eyes. Then she gave her man a smile, "So, I take it that Cassandra has some questions for me, right?"
"I'd expect so. She did want to see you, after all."
"I just… have so many questions…"
Sylvia smiled at the woman in question. "Well, I got time. Lay 'em on me."
Cassandra dampened her bottom lip and exhaled, "Alright… well, first off..."
The Number One of the Organization started asking the wayward Sylvia many, many questions that begged for answers.
What felt like hours later, Sylvia let out a heavy sigh. "Aaand, that's about it," she said.
There was a very, very tense silence in the air as Cassandra, Miranda, and Uranus all took in Sylvia's words.
"I am so, so sorry," the Number One immediately apologized to him. She did declare her intent to outright murder him and Kurako after all. Multiple times in fact.
Naruto, however, waved her off, "It's fine. Like I told your friend here, if you were to think about it from your perspective it's understandable." Then he wagged his eyebrows at her, "If you insist on making it up to me, though… well… bending over so I can give that nice ass of yours a spanking is a good start," he teased, complete with a toothy grin.
"Oh, you!" Sylvia grunted in amused exasperation, giving him a light whack on the head. "Behave yourself! I swear Neideen's rubbing off on you."
"That's a scary thought," Cassandra muttered.
"I've been around perverts for a good chunk of my life." Naruto admitted with a helpless shrug, "I'll admit am one myself, to be fair, but I do try to keep it down. I don't want to creep any of you out - and if I start to, please, do tell me."
"That aside," Sylvia said with another sigh. She hated to be the mood killer here, but someone had to address the elephant in the room. "What are you going to do now?"
"I… honestly have no idea," Cassandra muttered. Though grateful for the change of subject to something far less embarrassing, she was still dreading this conversation. "The Organization will brand us as traitors if we leave and have us executed; if we come back empty-handed, we'll be punished severely and possibly be sent on a suicide mission if the rumors are true; and even if we wanted to follow through with our current mission and succeeded, the results would not just be morally reprehensible, but... I… daresay nothing short of apocalyptic."
"Well, what I said before still stands: just don't go back and stay with us." Naruto reminded her. Seriously, if she was that afraid then they can just stay here. He has no problem with that. He then added, "If you go back and tell them what you know, who do you think they're going to send back here to get their hands on me, Neideen, Sylvia, Riful, and Kurako? Everyone from Number One to forty-seven. It'll be an absolute massacre."
"You have a point," the woman exhaled.
"I'm… all for staying, Cassandra." Miranda told her.
"Me too," Uranus chimed in, before she turned to Cassandra with a serious look on her face. "To be fair, I'd rather not have the fox girl coming after our heads. If she's strong enough to kick your ass and not get a scratch then I don't fancy our chances against her. And I know for damn sure that Roxanne wouldn't want to piss her off, either… or Riful for that matter."
"I guess that settles it, then," Cassandra said with a heavy sigh. "It looks like we're staying here for the foreseeable future," she then turned to Naruto, "Please, take care of us."
"I will." Then he let out a tired sigh of his own. "Thankfully, we have plenty of room to spare, so make yourselves at home."
"Very much appreciated," Cassandra replied with a respectful bow.
Naruto smiled and nodded at the now-former Number One. "If we're done, here, then c'mon, we should let Sylvia have her rest." Naruto beckoned the women to follow him out of the room. Now that Cassandra had all her questions answered, there was no need for them to interrupt her any more. Not to mention she still had three clones tending to her.
"You're coming back to bed with me after dinner," Sylvia reminded. "It's my turn."
"Understood, dear." With that, the young man and his entourage left the bedchamber.
"My bera's on the one with the pigtails," one of the clones commented as soon as the door shut behind them.
"I'm actually betting on the girl with the pointy ears," another chimed in. "She reminds me of Hinata for some reason. Not sure why..."
Sylvia rolled her eyes in exasperated amusement as the clones debated and placed their bets on whom the original would end up fucking first. She actually had her bet on Uranus, but didn't let her 'man servants' know of that. She only knew of the other tomboy in passing, but based on what she did know, she was the aggressive type, Naruto had a thing for that kind of woman. They also shared a lot in common, seeing how her fighting style left her a bit of an outcast.
Granted, he also had a weakness for the easily-flustered shy type like Cassandra, but that one was not at all likely to make the first move. Also worth noting, though, was that the others were wild cards - Roxanne, especially. Sylvia knew precisely jack shit about that woman, though something about her did seem a bit… off. She'll have to keep an eye on her.
In the end, only time will tell whom her man will love on next - not that Sylvia minded… so long as she got her fair share of snuggles, of course.
1: How the hell did it take this long for me to write Naruto dogpiling a girl with his clones? I mean, it was mentioned a few times before this point, but it took surprisingly long for me to show that happening. O.o
2: This is gonna be a long one, but not quite a rant… more of a rambly insight into the creative process of Into the Void.
The thing I don't get about a lotta harem fics on this site is that the writers tend to miss one of the most important aspects of the genre… that being the whole point of there being a harem in the first place.
In Twisted Bonds, you have the imoutou (Nariko), the tsundere (FemSasu), and the shy pervert (Hinata).
In Into the Void, you (currently) have the tomboy (Sylvia), the mischievous pervert (Neideen), the token-loli (Riful) and the kemonomimi/furry… who also happens to be a loli and childhood friend by technicality (Kurako/FemKyuu).
(Riful was also meant to be a himedere, but I was... not quite able to pull it off. DX Oh, well… Maybe next time. I am doing this to learn how to be a better writer, after all.)
In short, the whole point of having a harem is to cast as wide a net as possible by having a "best girl" for as many people as you can… within reason, of course. That all said, Uranus was originally going to be dead in this fanfic because I already had a tomboy, but it was decided when we wrote the second draft of this fanfic that she would still be around since it gave us an easy route to having a traditional hunting party go after Naruto. It's also worth noting that I like tomboys, lol. She also has a lot of common ground with Naruto.
Due to the redundancy between her and Sylvia, though, it's still up in the air if she'll be joining in on the fun. But, at the same time, I'm leaning towards yes, since Riful and Kurako are nearly as similar in this fic. We shall see.
3: I'm sure anyone who is familiar enough with Claymore will be able to tell what Roxanne's gonna be. =3
And that's it for now... Next chapter is essentially a prologue for the next major arc, so I'mma try and post Chapter Twelve on the 2nd of next month and Chapter Thirteen on the 3rd so as not to keep y'all waiting... or on the 3rd and 4th, depending on your timezone, lol.
I hope y'all enjoyed the fanfic and I will do my best to make sure those updates happen on time! Have a good one, eh? :)