I've been told that I should tone down the sex scenes, so I have. Expect no more than a paragraph for the actual 'lemons' from now on. Keep it vague and focus on the space odyssey.
The Pack were one and all woken by the lights turning on and off rapidly before settling at full brightness. "Hello? Potential emergency, please wake up!" Shikamaru called out, sounding worried for the first time in his short life.
Naruto rubbed his eyes. "We're in the heart of Konoha Federation territory. What could be the problem?"
"That's what I thought. Which is why I waited until the probability of Interdiction reached 90% before I woke you," Shikamaru said sharply.
Hinata sat up. "90%? What kind of ship is it?"
"Konoha Federation insignia, but no ship design I've ever seen before. It's got a blocked transponder that your algorithm proved ineffective against."
Sasuke frowned. "What the hell kind of encryption could keep out Tenten?"
"Should I mention that the odds of it being an automated vessel are 57%?" Shikamaru asked.
"Yes!" Tenten shot out of bed and rushed to the door. "Look alive, people, we've got an AI ship about to attack!"
"It's only a 57% probability," Shikamaru quibbled.
"When it comes to threats, anything over 50% is good as 100%" Hana said, hopping out as well. "How long do we have?"
"34 seconds and counting. Blame how fast we are and the length of this conversation," Shikamaru snarked.
Everyone rushed at Psychic Speed to their closets to throw on the first clothes they touched, before making for the anti-grav tube. They had just settled into their respective stations when the Interdiction alarm went off.
"BWOOP! BWOOP! BWOOP!"
Tenten immediately powered up weapons and shields. Fu began evasive maneuvers as soon as the Tactical Map came up. Hana activated her targeting matrix and grasped her joysticks, while the rest just hung on and looked up at the map.
They had been travelling through the Beta Persei system, an eclipsing binary system consisting of three stars, that was known colloquially as the Demon Star. There were a couple of gas giants orbiting the primary star, and a broad, dense belt of metallic asteroids close to the center of the system. Of more interest though was their attacker, which was a long cruiser clad in grey armour plating, and bristling with weapon ports.
"Shields at 85%! They've been firing since they pulled us. No human can react that fast!" Tenten called out, all but confirming it was an AI ship.
"Light it up!" Naruto ordered.
Fu brought them around on an attack vector, aligning the weapon arcs with the hostile ship. The two ships were of comparable size and the 500 meter long vessels raced towards each other as though daring the other to break away first. Orange beams blasted out from the mysterious ship, half of which hit the Invictus, while the other four lances of energy sailed wide, their gunner fooled by Fu's maneuvers. Hana returned fire with six searing blue beams, sending coruscating pulses in concentric rings over the shield's surface as the target's shields struggled to remain intact.
"Mute the glare from the tactical map, Tenten," Naruto ordered her, shielding his eyes as he winced, blinking to try and get rid of the after-image burned on his retinas.
"Sorry, compensating," she said, making the adjustment on her console.
The Beams eventually broke through just as they began to peter out. The result was a deep gouge in the surface of the foreign ship that would have depressurized those sections of the ship. But that proved not to be a concern for the one controlling the ship.
"Active scan results back! There's no organic matter on that ship!" Sasuke reported, his red eyes wide as coins. "Son of a bitch, R&D did it again!"
"Gaara, try hailing it. See if it can be reasoned with. Hana, cripple it instead of coring it," Naruto ordered.
"They're trying to ram us!" Hinata called out, realizing their game of space chicken had passed a critical threshold.
Fu twisted the ship to avoid the AI vessel, even as Laser Cannon fire flashed between them. Hana expertly managed to hit each of the weapon ports on the enemy vessel, and the fire control tower for good measure, essentially leaving it toothless.
"They accepted the ha-" Gaara began before a squeal of noise came through the speakers before the channel suddenly went dead.
"What the hell was that?" Sakura asked from her chair at an inactive station.
"That was binary. Translation: Accursed organics, death to you all," Shikamaru said in a very small voice.
Almost before he'd finished speaking, the AI vessel went up in a fusion explosion. The close proximity might well have overwhelmed their Shields if they'd still been using a Konoha Shield Generator. As it was, their Shields went into the orange range before quickly recharging back to green. The debris left in the wake of the explosion hung in space as the Invictus sat there.
"It must have overloaded its Power Core," Tenten reasoned. "Suicide move, since we took out its weapons."
"Sasuke, I owe you an apology. If that is your experience with AI, then no wonder you don't trust me," Shikamaru said in a self-pitying tone.
"Compared to that homicidal thing, you're as human as I am, Shikamaru," Sasuke said, being reminded what 'real' AI were like.
"That's not exactly comforting, given you're more Uzu than Konoha, but I appreciate the sentiment," Shikamaru said, sounding a bit better.
Naruto blew out a breath and rubbed his forehead. "So Konoha has made another copy of Nexus. And it doesn't exactly like things that breathe."
"Could this be the work of the Dragon March traitor and the rival Uzu? Another attempt to destabilize the Konoha Federation?" Hana posited.
Before Naruto could answer, Tenten alerted them. "Incoming ship. It's a Battleship, five minutes out, the Loki."
Sasuke sat up. "Battleship Loki, that's run by Vice Admiral Ebisu. He's a ranking officer in R&D. I've heard of him but we've never met."
"Come to clean up his mess, you think?" Hinata asked.
They waited tensely for the Loki to arrive in system. When it did, it loomed over them like a giant, easily three times the size of the Invictus.
"We're being hailed," Gaara reported. At Naruto's nod, the Grey opened the channel.
The viewscreen crackled and a bespectacled older man wearing full dress uniform, including his peaked Konoha Federation hat appeared as a hologram in the center of the bridge.
"This is Vice Admiral Ebisu on the Battleship Loki. It looks like we were too slow to assist you against that pirate ship, but my congratulations to you for defeating them," the man said in a dispassionate voice.
"This is Commodore Uzumaki on the Assault Cruiser Invictus, and that was no pirate ship! It had Konoha Federation markings for one thing!" Naruto protested.
"Yes, we'd been warned that a pirate band had stolen some Konoha Federation vessels, and were using them to ambush shipping," Ebisu said, telling Naruto an obvious lie. "Thanks for helping with the cleanup, but we've got it from here. It's probably best if you go about your business."
Knowing he had no justification for attacking a Vice Admiral, Naruto managed a smile without it turning into a grimace. "Happy to assist, Vice Admiral," Naruto said
"Farewell Commodore Uzumaki," the older man replied cordially, then ended the call. The Battleship Loki still bore down on their present position, flying on a direct heading towards the debris of the annihilated Cruiser.
Naruto turned towards the Nymph sitting at the station before him. "You better take us out of here, Fu," he told her firmly.
Fu nodded, and turned the Invictus away from the approaching Battleship, moving well clear of any local gravity wells so that they could jump into hyperwarp. Despite having decisively won the encounter with the strange grey Cruiser, the atmosphere was bleak on the bridge of the Invictus.
"I better report this to Shino. If R&D have opened up Project Nexus again, High Command needs to be warned," Naruto said, exhausted despite just waking up.
"To answer your earlier question, Hana, one of the three Dragon March Admirals 'could' have ordered Ebisu to start working on AI ships again. But we'd have a time and a half proving it; R&D is notoriously secretive, and they're communications and projects have the best encryption to be found in the K-Fed," Sasuke explained.
"It's 0300. I doubt Shino will be awake. You can send it when we wake up again. Come on, we'll be at Oceanus in another three hours, let's go back to bed," Hinata cajoled.
"I want to do it now, while it's fresh in my mind. You all go ahead, I'll be along shortly," Naruto instructed. They all gave him a quick kiss before leaving for the anti-grav tube. After Sakura had finished kissing him, she followed Gaara away and Naruto sat down, willing away his erection caused by so much loving. He hit a button on his Command Chair and began to dictate his AAR, the text appearing in hologram in front of his face. He reviewed it at the end, made a few edits, and saved it. Naruto was about to walk away when he paused. "Shikamaru?"
"Yes, Naruto?" Shikamaru asked, already having grown out of his habit of using a person's full name.
"You saved this crew. In the time it would have taken us to wake up to the Interdiction alarm and get up here, we could have been crippled. You have my sincerest thanks, and if I could I'd shake your hand. I'd try right now but I'm too exhausted to attempt Psychic Hacking and enter your system to meet you." Naruto looked up at the nearest camera and grinned. "Good job, man."
"Thank you, Naruto. I like it when you praise me. It… feels good," the AI said. "And I promise to never try to kill you or anyone else unless you try to kill me or the crew."
"That sounds very fair. Good night, Shikamaru." With that, Naruto walked off for bed. He found his Pack waiting for him to take the central spot on the bed, which he did. With Hinata and Sasuke in his arms, and the feel of his mates' thoughts and emotions to soothe him, he quickly fell back to sleep.
Feeling like seconds later, the lights gently turned on again. "Sorry to bother you, everyone. But we've been in the Oceanus system for four hours and the defense fleet is getting twitchy. I've routed their hails to voicemail, but I think they're getting impatient. They might start firing on us."
Naruto yawned. "Ain't no rest for the wicked. Okay, everyone, to the Bridge."
They all put on the clothes they'd worn during the Nexus attack, and filed up the anti-grav tube. They settled into their seats and turned on the Tactical and System Maps.
Hana blinked. "How the hell did they afford a Battleship?"
"The super wealthy take no chances with security," Sakura said with an odd hitch to her voice.
Naruto had Gaara contact the Captain of the Battleship. After confirming they were clients here on vacation that had just had a lie-in, the man waved them through and wished them a pleasant stay. Fu flew them in towards the massive blue planet, which seemed to be almost entirely ocean. They all looked excitedly at the place that would be their home for two weeks.
An incoming call lit up the comm interface, and Gaara pressed a button to open the communication channel. Naruto recognised the strikingly beautiful blonde girl he had spoken to the other day, as her image appeared as a hologram in the center of the bridge.
"Welcome to Oceanus, Mr Uzumaki!" she said in her lovely clear spoken voice.
"Thank you Felicity. Is everything prepared?" he asked her politely.
"Of course, Sir. You and your guests may land at your resort whenever you are ready," she replied with a sparkling smile.
*Oh my, she's beautiful. Fancy a blonde on the crew? We never did get that eye-candy role filled,* Hinata thought to him.
Rolling his eyes at his Matriarch's antics, Naruto said "We're ready now. By the way, did you receive the packages I ordered? I asked for them to be delivered to Oceanus," he asked Felicity curiously.
"Yes Mr Uzumaki, I took the liberty of arranging for the training equipment to be prepared in readiness for you. I do hope that was not overstepping my bounds?" she asked him in her precise and elegant manner of speech.
"Excellent work, thank you, Felicity!" Naruto exclaimed, genuinely pleased. It came as quite a relief that he didn't have to set up the equipment himself, or in all likelihood, have to ask Tenten to do it.
"It was my pleasure, Sir. I hope you have a wonderful stay here with us, and please get in touch should you require anything at all," Felicity told them, beaming a wide smile at both Naruto and the crew assembled with him on the Bridge.
"We will, thanks again," Naruto replied, and ended the call.
"She has the same accent as you, Sakura. Is it a rich people thing?" Tenten asked curiously.
"There are speech classes in order to acquire the equivalent of vocal calligraphy," Sakura said in her precise way of speaking. "I didn't so much pick it up as learn it through the skin, growing up in a trillionaire's household. All the staff spoke the same way, not just my parents."
"Imagine, being rich enough even the help are snooty and holier-than-thou," Hinata said humorously.
"Should I start talking in that manner?" Shikamaru asked.
Naruto rolled his eyes. "Only if you want to, buddy. You're not help, you're the Ship Assistant. You're a part of the crew. You'd be part of the family, too, if you had a body."
"And he will, once I get around to it. Designing an android worthy of the Uzu takes time, though," Tenten said with a savage grin.
Fu, while this was going on, had obediently followed the flight path Felicity had provided. Their island was currently shrouded in darkness, it being eleven at night local time, so all they could see at the moment was the gentle glow of the lighting in the docking bay as she brought them in to land.
"And here we are!" Fu exclaimed exuberantly, as she powered down the engines.
She flashed an excited grin at Naruto, and then they all rose, and headed down in the grav-tube to collect their suitcases for the vacation. It didn't take too long for them to assemble in the corridor in Deck Two, and they headed down in the grav-tube, ready to leave the Invictus.
"What are we going to do all night? It's 1000 on our internal clocks," Hana asked.
"Honey, we're Uzu. What do you think we'll be doing all night?" Naruto asked with a salacious grin.
"It's seven hours until dawn on this part of the planet. You sure you'll be able to keep going for all that time?" Hinata asked challengingly.
"Seven mates, seven hours. That's an hour per person. Sounds easy enough to me. I might need to stop for water breaks so I don't dry up like a raisin, but otherwise you're ALL going to get it," Naruto vowed.
The Pack shivered, each of them knowing that Naruto never broke a promise. Sakura was a bit worried, having not had vaginal sex with Naruto yet and still doubting it was possible or safe. But she'd seen him take other members of the crew to their obvious delight, so she'd trust that the meals she'd had already would have converted her enough by this point.
When they left the ship, they were surprised that they couldn't see the night's sky above them, the entrance to the docking bay having closed while they got ready. They saw a brightly lit guiding line on the floor, and it provided an easy-to-follow trail out of the huge room. They followed the light, out into the nearby corridor, and it ran along for a few dozen metres before ending at a set of double doors. The exuberant chatter from the crew died down as they looked at Naruto with eager anticipation.
"Home sweet home for the next two weeks," Naruto said, now just as excited as the Pack, and he pushed the button.
"Oh, wow!" Fu exclaimed, as the crew gasped collectively.
Ahead of them was a huge room, which looked like a hollowed out cove. There was a path that led around the side, with a long curving sandy beach that was being lapped gently by the night-time sea. There were seating areas that overlooked the beach, complete with immaculate white summer furniture, that looked pristine, like it had never been used before. They walked along the path around the edge of the cove, their way illuminated by the soft glow of lanterns set at regular intervals along the route, until it ended at a couple of glass double doors. They opened automatically, leading them into a large lounge area, with massive fifty foot high glass windows that looked out onto the cloudless night sky.
There were a couple of doors that led off from the lounge, and a glass elevator at the other end of the room that led up to some kind of open balcony area. They followed the glowing path, flashing excited glances at one another, and it led them to the elevator. It was big, with plenty of room for all of them and their luggage, and once they were inside, the elevator rose up to the mezzanine area. There was a comfortable seating area up here, warmly lit by an ornate lamp, and the soft glow illuminated more sets of doors leading off to the side. The room then led out, seemingly through the huge glass windows and up a couple of steps, before opening out to a spectacular bedroom.
There was a huge, luxurious looking bed in the center of the room, and on every side were tall windows that spanned its entire length. Up above them the ceiling was glass too, and they had an uninterrupted view of the night sky through the yawning portal.
"Sleeping here will be like camping outside!" Hana exclaimed in wonder, looking around the opulent luxury of the suite.
Tenten had wandered over to a small table that held a series of remotes. She picked up one and began to press buttons experimentally, and the ceiling and walls suddenly went opaque. She played with the controls for a while, grinning as she learnt how to operate everything.
"There's some huge walk-in-wardrobes over here!" Hinata exclaimed, as she reappeared from one of the double doors.
The girls and guys descended en-masse to put away their clothes, and Naruto left the chaotic sounds of playful laughter to explore a bit more. He found a couple of bathrooms, with enormous baths inside and a couple of roomy showers. With a grin, he realised it wasn't too far removed from their home aboard the Invictus. He went back down in the elevator, and explored a bit further, finding a well stocked kitchen, and the training room that was now stocked up with the equipment he had ordered.
He grinned when he saw the practice swords, and picked up a Katana and Wakizashi, which he swung around with an experimental flourish. When he spotted the Odachi, he replaced the other blades, and picked this one up so that he could get a feel for it. It was single edged rather than double, but of a comparable size to his Invictium blade. He swung it around and tried out a few slashes before he replaced that blade with its compatriots.
With a smile, he left the training room and re-entered the lounge, then jumped, startled as a stealthy figure rolled in from the darkness outside.
"Hey, Naruto" a tracked black garbed robot said in Shikamaru's voice, as it rolled up silently. "My apologies for startling you. My name is Shikamaru, and I'll be your robot butler during your stay on Oceanus. Would you or your guests care for refreshments?"
"Ha ha, very funny. How long did it take you to hack this thing?" Naruto asked
"About three seconds. Now I can 'assist' you in person even while you're in this palace. When would you all like breakfast?"
"We'll be leaving the bedroom around 0600 tomorrow local time, so let's say 0700," Naruto said.
"Of course, Sir. Full English or continental?" the automated assistant asked politely.
"You don't have to call me 'sir', even if you're role-playing as what this thing was supposed to be. Let's go with a broad selection and the crew can pick and choose."
"Very good, Sir," the 'butler' replied cheekily, and tilted at the waist in a reasonable approximation of a bow.
"Thanks Shikamaru, goodnight," Naruto said, and then strolled back to the elevator to head up to the mezzanine.
His Pack was waiting for him, naked and glorious. Naruto soon joined them, kicking his clothes off to the side.
"We presume you're going in the order we joined. So that means I'm the lucky first?" Hinata purred, standing there with her hairless tan body presented proudly for him.
"You presume correct. And I want the rest of you to keep each other occupied while I'm busy with the others," Naruto growled in an authoritative tone, his gold necklace glinting in the dim light of the lamp.
"You mean you don't want us to watch?" Sasuke asked, Beta body on full display.
"Watch all you want. Just do it while warming each other up for their ride with the Alpha," Naruto said imperiously. Then he strode forward to pull Hinata into his arms and kiss her.
The hours until dawn passed in a blur while also slowing to a crawl that lasted forever. Naruto plundered Hinata's pussy like it was their wedding night, driving her crazed with passion before finally filling her like we wanted to breed her. Sasuke was forced down onto his front while Naruto pinned him, asserting his dominance over the smaller man by pounding his prostate until it broke. Hana was held up, always loving displays of Naruto's strength, Naruto's hips moving at a blur as he thrust in and out of her womb. Tenten was extra naughty and asked to be taken in the ass while getting firmly spanked. Fu rode him with a dancer's rocking hips, her alien pussy milking him for all he was worth. Gaara was shown why the Uzu had ruled over the Suna, bent over and ploughed by Naruto's insanely big dick. Sakura was lifted lovingly onto the bed and slowly fed every inch of the Alpha's cock, until he rested balls deep, before demonstrating his insane stamina. Naruto drank a glass of water in between each fuck, so his Psychic Healing would have something to work with to restore a full load to each member of the Pack. He used Telekinesis to fill their stomachs with the seed he'd pumped into their holes, and at the end he laid on the bed panting, enjoying having each mental compartment dedicated to his Bond with his Pack glowing.
*I need to use Fu to feed you all simultaneously more often. It feels amazing, being so connected to all of you at the same time,* Naruto thought.
*Speaking of, Naruto, I came up with a new trick,* the Nymph thought tiredly, having exhausted herself keeping the others aroused while Naruto was busy with the others. She concentrated, and her stomach went down and stopped lighting up as her tits swelled up to the J-cup size they'd been when she'd been Momochi Zabuza's Nymph.
Tenten's head went up like a dog catching a scent. *Are those filled with Naruto's cum?*
*Yes, little kitten. You want some more milk?* Fu asked playfully.
*No thanks, I'm good at the moment. Still, that's pretty cool. If we ever get injured and can't use Psychic Healing, you can literally nurse us back to health!*
Sakura had observed the phenomenon of the breast inflation without being part of the Pack mind. "Guess I have a nurse to help me out. We should get her a sexy uniform," she said dazedly, still recovering from the most orgasmic sex of her life. Naruto was a truly gifted lover.
Gaara rubbed his belly contently. *This was a wonderful way to start the day,* he projected to them all. *I feel full of energy and ready to tackle the full day ahead of us. We'll sleep easy tonight.*
At that moment, the sun rose. Dawn at their island on Oceanus was a spectacular affair. The golden sun slowly crept up above the horizon and sent out bright spears of light, illuminating the rapidly brightening sky. Naruto and the crew felt the warm glow of the sun's rays, and they got up at the same time, stretching languidly in the extremely comfortable bed. Fu was on the western edge, and when she rolled on to her other side, so that she was facing the sun, she sat up abruptly with a startled gasp.
"Oh, Naruto, this place is breathtaking!" she said in a hushed whisper.
Immediately curious as to what had triggered this reaction in the Nymph, they all sat up and a series of shocked gasps echoed around the room.
Their bedroom jutted out over the ocean, at least sixty feet above sea-level, which offered them incredible views of the palm tree lined beach that spread out along the western coast and around the island. To the eastern side, the coast and rocky walls of the cliff behind them abruptly disappeared into the cove they had walked around the night before.
"It's endless," Hinata said softly, looking out in shock at the miles of uninterrupted ocean spread out before them.
"Are you alright there, Hinata?" Naruto asked her with concern, wary in case she reacted badly to the sight of such a vast volume of water.
"It's beautiful, but there's so much of it. It doesn't seem real," she replied in a hushed voice.
"I come from a land of desert. All our water is from condensation farms. Only the wealthy can afford pools. This amount of salt water strains my imagination," Gaara said, a little less obviously troubled but still out there.
Naruto hugged them and a wide-eyed Tenten close, his big arms encircling all three of them. "I'm sorry about the shock. I know this kind of vacation isn't ideal for you guys."
"We know. You picked this place for Fu. And that's wonderful," Hinata said, kissing his jawline. Like his Betas, Naruto was naturally hairless below the eyebrows and never had to shave.
"I'll get used to it. I know how to swim and I'm eager to experience a beach vacation. I'm very good at playing in the sand," Gaara said with a warm smile.
"Like Hinata once said, I can breathe underwater and fly, why should I be scared of a giant puddle. A salty puddle at that!" Tenten said bravely.
"Still, is there anyway I can make your stay more enjoyable? Besides a second round, I'm tuckered out," Naruto said giving them a squeeze before letting go.
They and the rest of the crew got identical naughty grins. "Seeing you squeeze into a speedo should make our day," Hinata purred.
Naruto obediently went to his suitcase. He opened it and rummaged around before finding the orange speedo he'd had Hinata purchase for him. Naruto slipped into the swim briefs and turned, holding out his arms as if to present himself. "How do I look?"
"Indecent. Like you've stuffed a baseball down there," Sasuke chuckled, patting his mostly reduced tummy.
"Which is why growing up I wore swim trunks so I didn't get thrown out of the community pool," Naruto said. "But it's just us here and I want a tan, so here we are.
The rest of them got into swimwear. Hinata elected for a black bikini, Sasuke for a speedo that matched his eyes, Hana for white, Tenten for maroon, Fu for green, Gaara for blue, and Sakura for pink. She had to tighten her straps a fair bit, as the bikini had been sized for a Thrall and her breasts were only a B-cup. Improvement since she started, but still not the 32D Naruto preferred.
"Everyone down to the beach?" Naruto asked. "I told the robot butler that Shikamaru took over to have breakfast ready by 0700."
"Yep! Bring on the fun in the sun," Hinata cheered.
"I'm just going to pop into the Invictus for a minute to scan myself to make my time point. I'll join you all in fifteen minutes," Sakura said.
They descended from the elevator into the lounge. The view from this room through the huge windows was incredible, showing the beach around the island from one side, and the cove through the windows on the other. A glance at a clock on the wall told Naruto that it was just past 0600, so he knew they had an hour to wait before Shikamaru the robot butler would have their breakfast ready.
Naruto admired the sight of all his Pack half-naked, a sight that at times was more tantalizing than full nudity. After all, clothes made the man. He ran a hand possessively over all their stomachs, in varying degrees of digestion of his cum. They all looked up at him doe-eyed.
"Time for a swim!" he said with a teasing grin, and turned and strolled through the double doors and out to the cove beyond.
They groaned with frustration, then grinned as they prowled after him. The cove was set up to look like it was a completely natural formation, but as they walked down the rough hewn steps to the golden sand below, Naruto realised it was a clever illusion, and that the granite surface was smooth and perfectly level.
The sand felt soft and warm under their toes, having been warmed by the morning sun for a few minutes already. With girlish delight and boyish glee, the teenage women and physical prime men began to cavort around on the beach, chasing each other around playfully. The only exception was Fu, who after running around for a little while, stopped and stared out at the sea longingly.
Naruto walked up to stand beside her. "Go ahead, go wild!" he said to her encouragingly. "I chose this place for you, after all."
The Nymph looked up at him, and he could see how deeply touched she was, by the tender expression on her face. She walked up to him and stood on the tips of her toes, her lips brushing softly against his cheek.
"Thank you," she said simply, her voice throbbing with gratitude.
When he turned to smile at her, she grinned back at him with excitement, then sprinted full tilt into the sea. She leapt into the air as she reached the water's edge, and delicate aquamarine fins sprouted from her arms and legs as she dove gracefully into the sea. Naruto laughed, and watched as she resurfaced a few dozen meters out into the cove, arcing out of the water before disappearing beneath the surface once more.
Fu surged through the water, feeling a sense of total freedom that she had never experienced before. She cut through the sea like she was born to it, and she dove deeper, her eyes staring in wonder at the coral formations that surrounded the island. Tropical fish in a huge variety of exotic colours swam lazily around the anemones and sea grasses, that waved gently with the urgings of the tidal currents.
Although her fins were great for the swimming pool aboard the Invictus, she found they were not really efficiently designed for swimming against the currents as she was now. She floated there under the water for a moment, feeling an urge welling up inside her. Remembering Naruto's encouraging words to go wild, she grinned, and then surrendered to the feeling. Her entire body began to shimmer, and a sudden image of the aquatic predator that had been owned by one of her previous masters flashed into her mind. She recalled the 'collector' telling her it was called a tiger shark, and she gleefully molded her body into that form.
A passing fish watched with unblinking eyes as the strange green mammal that was undulating through the water stopped and seem to blur before its eyes. The fish swam lazily against the current, floating in place, not quite decided whether to flee back to the safety of the anemones on the reef. Suddenly the fish was staring at a massive green striped predator, that turned to look at it with hungry eyes. The fish turned and fled, but the last thing it saw before its life ended, was the gleaming rows of razor sharp teeth.
Fu swallowed the fish down in two big bites, and her shark face smiled wide in a hideous tooth-filled grimace. She surged through the water, enjoying the incredibly efficient design of this new form, and lost herself in the unbridled openness of the ocean.
The rest of the vacation next chapter. Please fave follow or review