Disclaimer: I do NOT own any of the characters written here. They are own by their respective owners. Nuff' said.

Warning: This is rated M for a reason (blood, gore, extreme violence, language, and possible adult themes/lemons, etc.) Some of the characters will be a little OC.

Keep sending...You know what? Fuck this! I've said enough times. Go look at the other chapters to find out what I want you all to do. And don't forget the poll for the life cycle of Baby is still open.

Now on with the ninth chapter.

The Black Leaves

Chapter 9

Naruto was a little uncomfortable while he led the three women to his home. He had explained to them that he needed to change into the festival outfit that old man Hokage had given him as a gift. He has never had a chance to wear it before since he did not want it to be destroyed while being mauled by the villagers. Luckily for our hero, the women agreed to going to his home and voicing that they needed to change into their respective outfits for the festival as well.

The fact that he was going to have such important people inside his rundown apartment was only half of the reason behind his uncomfortable state of being.

The rest of his uncomfortably, was because of the creature hovering near him. Empress and the silver robed figure; who he learned was named Payback, had given him a short lecture on the creature and that the little being was an ancient creature called a metroid. He was told that it was the last of it's kind and it had been surviving for a million or so years. The creature somehow survives by draining some kind of unknown energy from it's victims. Empress said that no one has ever been able to find out what the energy is, but without it, the victim dies. The metroid drains the unknown energy and other bodily fluids from it's victim through the pincers on it's underbelly. The energy and body fluids are then absorbed into the nuclei inside of it and is used to help it grow.

The metroid hovered closer to Naruto as the small group made their was to Naruto's apartment.

Suddenly, with a loud "Scree", the metroid rushed at Naruto and slammed itself onto his chest. The force of the impact caused Naruto to fall on his rear end with a shout of surprise. He had grabbed the little creature in a futile effort to stop his fall and had brought it down to Earth with him. Naruto felt the creature rubbing into his chest and cooing softly. He looked down to see the metroid snuggling into his jacket.

Both Empress and the silver robbed woman giggled at the bewildered expression on the blond's face. The third women showed no sign of mirth, or any other emotion for that matter.

"It appears that Baby has found it's new daddy," The silver lady said with a light chuckle as the metroid; now known as Baby.

This news caused Naruto to become more shocked as the little metroid snuggled further into his chest and let loss another wave of affectionate cooing sounds.

"Um..." Was Naruto's intelligent reply as he looked back at the women with a confused gaze.

"We will explain when we get to your home, 'k?" Silver lady said with a giggle. She then strolled over to the downed kid, knelt down and held out her arms in a 'come here' fashion. "Come to mommy, Baby." She said in a soft and motherly voice

Naruto felt a small pang of sadness stab into him as Baby left from it's snuggled into spot on Naruto's chest and flew into silver lady's arms. The soft and caring toneshe used was something Naruto had only ever heard from the academy students' parents. He had often been forced to her the sounds of a mother calling her child, but never himself. He had the same wish that every orphan in existancewanted; to hear a caring mother call out to them. (A/N: I really suck at these emotional explanations; obviously. Don't whine.)

The silver lady stood up with Baby in her arms and helped Naruto up. For some reason she was very reluctant to let go of Naruto's hand, but after a little bit of struggling he was able to get his arm free from her iron grip. When he finally got his arm free, Naruto could have sworn that he heard a disappointed groan come from the woman. Weird.

The small group made it to Naruto's apartment building without anymore inturruptions. Naruto led the women up the outdoor staircase to his apartment and held the door open for them.

After the three females and the creature entered the apartment, Naruto closed the door and turned around to his guests. All three were looking directly at Naruto with an unsettling air around them.

Suddenly, the woman dressed in the black-purple robe lobbed a glob of yellow-ish organic matter out of her left robe sleeve. The goo flew past Naruto's head and splattered against the door and quickly hardened, causing the door to be impossible to open.

"Wh-what the?" Naruto stammered. "What's going on?" He quickly got into a defensive stance and tried to remember everything that Guy and Irukahad taught him about fighting.

"Naruto," Empress spoke in a demanding voice as she and the other two women lowered their respective hoods.

The woman in the silver robe had silky blond hair kept in a single ponytail and blue eyes that had a hint of green. Currently, her eyes were staring directly at Naruto and gave the boy an uneasing feeling.

'Why do I suddenly feel violated?' He thought to himself.

The woman in the dark purple robe had long dark pink hair that was held in two long pigtails. Her light blue eyes and emotionless face held only complete stoicism, even so much to rival that of the entire Hyuuga clan. Naruto noticed three bright red jagged lines on the left side of her forehead.

The woman in the royal purple robe had a very tired look to her face. She looked as if she had not slept in weeks, the dark bags under her eyes gave her an "I'm not in the mood to fuck around" feel. Her short dark blond hair was held, unrestrained from blocking her older looking face with two long strands that reached down to the back of her knees. She looked to be in her early to mid thirties and still looked young...for her age.

"Why don't you have a seat," Empress said while motioning towards the debilitated couch that sat in the middle of Naruto's rundown apartment.

Naruto did not show any sign of complying with the demand and continued to stay in his defensive stance. His eyes quickly scanned his captors for any signs of hostility and then scanned the room for any excape routes possible. Just as his eyes rested upon one of the windows in his tiny living room, another yellow glob splattered onto window and the wall it was connected to and hardened.

"And please do not try to escape," Empress said in a somewhat disappointed tone. "We really don't want to have to force you to listen to us."

Naruto looked at Empress with an eyebrow raised. "Listen? You want to talk?"

Empress nodded her head, causing her to antenna-like hairs to bob slightly. "Yes, Naruto we just want to talk and we want for you to listen."

Before Naruto could reply, Empress's two antenna-like hairs swung over her head and twitched slightly.

Suddenly, Naruto stopped all motion for a split moment. Then he slowly nodded his head. "I will listen to what you have to say, but if you try anything funny than we're gonna' kick all of your asss'. Girls or not." And with that sudden declaration, Naruto walked past the four other individuals inside his home and sat on his broken couch. The three women turned to face the boy and formed a somewhat triangular position. Empress in the middle-front, Miss Pink on the back right, and Blondy standing near the back left.

"Allow us to introduce ourselves," Pinky voiced. "We are Marta Lualdi, and..." Slowly, several bone-yellow colored tentacles appeared out of the collor and sleeves of her robe; which fell to the floor, and wrapped themselves around Marta's entire body.

Naruto wanted to run; or at least cover his eyes when the bare naked body of the flate chested female was revealed to him, but something was preventing himself from doing so. Like as if he was being commanded by some higher authority that was demanding he stay sitting. He never noticed the subtle twitching of Empress' hairs.

The tentacles finally came to a rest after a minute or so of slithering and twitching. The appendages slowly appeared to melt into one another until lthere was a smooth, bone-yellow humanoid shape standing where Marta had. Then the humanoid figure started to shake, slowly at first, then violently. Her body appeared to be shaking so violently that her body actually began to blur a bit at some of her movements. While Marta was vibrating like a virgin school girl's first time...Naruto noticed her body changing at the same time.

First was her change from five foot seven to six foot three. Then her body actually began to take a human-ish definition, such as the lithe muscle that formed on her arms, legs, and the rest of her female body. Her fingers grew a little longer and ended in sharp talons; the same happened to the toes on her feet. Naruto noticed that Marta was still flat chested, but he could see her lungs actually enlarge enough that her ribcage was pressed almost painfully against her new bone-yellow skin. Another pair of lungs could be seen forming underneath the skin of her back.

The three red lines on her forehead grew out of her head and twisted themselves into three small red blades. The new blades then layed themselves against her head in a three-fanned-windmill-like fashion. Marta's hair grew a tad and changed color from pink to a darker shade of yellow than her skin, the same color of her nipples.

Her feature-less face changed as well. The sound of tearing flesh brought Naruto's attention to Marta's forming mouth. The flesh where her mouth should of been was tearing away as duel rows of monstrous fangs grew out of her upper and lower jaw. The skin covering Marta's new eyes slowly "melted" away to reveal eyes similar to Payback's only more sunk in her head. After the final transformation, Marta's body stopped shaking and she stood at her place as if nothing had happened.

Naruto was trying his hardest to escape from his home turned prison as he watched the woman turn into a monster before his very eyes. Nothing had terrified him more than seeing the transformation, not the beatings, not the mobs, not even that one nightmare he had of Hinata getting made at him and turning into a giant she-demon from Hell with a whip in her hands.

"We are the symbiote known as Revenge." She finished her earlyer sentence.

Empress looked over at her adviser and back at Naruto, her two long hairs stayed in thier current position and twitched every now and then. A tiny small formed on her tired face. She then turned her head towards her blond companion; who was looking too disturbingly happy.

"We are Samus Aran.." She nearly giggled before she too dropped her robe as silver-blue tentacles and tendrils covered her body. Samus' transformation was not as violent as Revenge's and was more controlled and 'smooth' and liquid.

Naruto noticed a horizontal line that ran across her breasts. The line ran from one side of her breast, stop at the nipple, then run to the other side of the luscious orb and stopping at her sternum. The same was for her other breast.

"And, we are the symbiote Payback." She voiced after her transformation. She noticed the young boy looking at her 'girls' and decided to have some fun. She sauntered over to Naruto with a sexy sway of her hips and bent over in front of him.

Naruto's face quickly turned a bright shade of red as the massive pair of breasts where now just inches away from his face.

"Do you like big beutiful breasts, Naruto?" She asked in a deliciously sexy voice. Payback raised her breasts up closer to the blond's face; which, in turn, caused his face to become a brighter shade of red. "Do you want to touch them?" Payback asked seductively. She could see Naruto's unwavering gaze on her chest and the slight twitching of his hands as he unconsciously trying to grope the symbiote.

"Don't be shy," She coaxed. "Here, we'll help you." She gently grasped Naruto's wrists with two thin tentacles that sprouted out of her forearms and slowly drew them to her breasts.

Just as his fingers grazed the supple flesh, Payback's breasts actually burst opened into two pairs of fang filled jaws; complete with a tongue inside each. The lines that Naruto had seen were the opening to her extra jaws, hidden as a pair of breasts.

Naruto jerked back in surprise at the two maws that suddenly appeared before him. At the same time Payback released his wrists, thus causing the boy to fall back out of the coach and to land hard on the wooden floor of his cheap apartment.

Baby zoomed over to the downed kid and squeked in worry and hovered over him franticaly. Payback giggled softly at Naruto's reaction and leaned over the coach to get a better look at his fallen state.

"Sorry there, Naruto. That normally happens whenever we get excited." She giggled again. Payback then reached out and grasped her adopted child and cuddled it, whispering "It's okay Baby. Daddy is ok." In a soothing, motherly voice. Baby quickly calmed down and wriggled free of it's mother's grip and decided that Naruto's dish-filled sink was more interesting than the conversation.

Naruto slowly crawled back up and sat back down onto the coach, while Payback walked back to her spot near Empress. Naruto kept a keen eye on Miss Freaky Tits for the rest of the day.

Empress looked over at Payback and gave a small smile at her companions antics before turning back to Naruto.

"As you should know by know; we are the host of the symbiote Empress. We go by the human name of Annette Birkin." Miss Birkin said while motioning to herself. She then motioned to Naruto and spoke in a strong, inspirational voice, "And you. You are the host of the great symbiote lord, Lord Venom!"

Meanwhile...

Sarutobi Hiruzen was rubbing his temples in a vain effort to halt an upcoming headache. Just a few hours ago three men from a small village on the outskirts of the Land of Fire had arrived and demanded to see the Hokage about some kind of emergency. His secretary had allowed the three men an audience with the village leader, but when they burst through the Hokage's door yelling all at once, no sense could be made from whatever they where saying. What made it worse for the old man was that, combined with the three frantic men that would not calm down and the slowly growing amount of paperwork on his new desk; the head doctor of the village hospital was requesting that he be given an audiance with the Hokage as well.

So, after having the best secretary to ever exist help sort out the paperwork and force the crazed men out of his office and calm them down, Hiruzen was finally able to complete some of said paperwork and was about to call in the three outsiders. He just felt that letting them wait for a few hours would be a good enough punishment in nearly giving an old man a near heart attack.

The three men entered the large office in a more orderly fashion than before and stood side by side in front of Sarutobi's desk. The man between the other two was still sweating and appeared to be restraining himself from shouting out at the old man.

With a soft sigh, the Hokage asked, "What is the state of your emergency that it requires the use of the Village hidden in the Leaves?"

The man in the middle slowly took a deep breath and released it in an effort to calm himself. "H-Hokage-sama, something awful has happened to my son." His entire body was shaking with every word.

"Yes? Please continue," Sarutobi said when he noticed the man hesitate to continue. The man took another deep breath.

"M-m-my son was...covered...in this white stuff..." This statement almost had the old man yank out a form to file for pedophilia, but halted when the man continued. "...The stuff was...like some kind of body bag...or something...It just covered my son. He wouldn't move or react in any way for a while...then..." The man had to stop for a moment to hold in the vomit that was threatening to spew out of his mouth. He then swallowed hard and continued once again. "Th-then he...he...he started shaking and twitching like mad. Me and my wife could her his groaning, and it was just horrid. I-it looked like as if he was trying to break out of a straight jacket made of his own ..." He took another calming breath. "Then his body split open and he grew legs." Again, the man nearly lost his lunch, but held it down. "Th-then he...he just walked out of my families home."

Before the aged village leader could ask the man for any useful information. The other people in his office began talking about how they had seen it too and that their friend was telling the truth.

After a few minutes of shouting, the Hokage silenced the men, then asked them the basics for any potential mission. Where they were from, how much they were willing to pay, and the like. After the information was gathered and the men were gently escorted to a hotel; courtesy of his lovely secretary, Sarutobi asked that the doctor be let in.

The doctor calmly entered the office and walked up to the village leader's desk.

"What is the problem?" Sarutobi asked, forgoing any formalities. He just was not in the mood today.

"Well, Hokage-sama, there is a problem at the hospital," The doc. said.

Hiruzen gave an exasperated sigh, "I guessed as much. What kind of problem?"

"Well, after you issued room 312 off limits," He paused for a moment to think ove the words he wanted to say. "Things have gone to Hell in a hand basket."

Sarutobi coughed lightly, "Please, do explain."

"Well, I've lost three nurses, five patients, and one of my best doctors. To add on to that, the door of room 312 has become somewhat..." Again the man had to think of what to say, "Fucked up." He ended bluntly.

This time, Hiruzen coughed a little harder, "Please, I would like an explanation."

"Well..." The man began with his favorite word, before pulling out a sheet of paper out of his coat pocket. "...The door is covered in, what appears to be, human skin dripping in blood. Ever since I've lost my staff, nobody dares to go anywhere near that door. I would greatly appreciate it if the Hokage himself were to check out this bizarre situation."

The Hokage agreed to look into the hospital's problem...later...He had a feeling that Lady Empress was involved in all of this somehow. But right now he just wanted to go out with his beloved wife, son, and grandson, and enjoy the festivals activities. Though he did not approve what the festival always led to, he still liked to enjoy himself before the mob would make any advances on Naruto.

Back with Naruto...

"Do you understand?" Empress finished. For the past hour, the three women had been explaining to Naruto what he had become. Oddly, Naruto was easily able to except all that he was told, and currently had three black tentacles sticking out of his back, waving around lazily.

Where any normal person would either freak out over what he was just told, or have an emo "look at himself and understanding what really makes sense" or...whatever. Naruto just excepted it, like as if he had really known about it all his life but nobody told him so before whether it was true or not.

"Yes, Lady Empress. We fully understand." He spoke obediently, while Empress' antenna-hair twitched.

Naruto stood up and stretched a bit before asking, "So, are you three ladies gonna' change?"

They women nodded a yes and made their way into Naruto's bedroom to change; not out of modesty for themselves, as Naruto had learned. Symbiote hosts have no need for clothing sense their sybiote protects them from the elements, so most hosts go around naked. That includes the three just in the other room.

Naruto walked over to his small hall closet and opened it to reveal the one article of clothing that he owned that was not orange. It was black. And that was it. It was a plain, black, festival outfit. Naruto quickly changed out of his normal orange jumpsuit and into the black clothing, then decided to sit on his coach and play with Baby while waiting for the women to finish changing.

He did not have to wait long. All three women walked out of Naruto's bedroom wearing yukatas the exact same color as their respective robes. Baby flew over to it's mother and cuddled against her as the women walked up to Naruto.

"Now, we're ready." Samus said with a giggle.

Naruto held the door open like a true gentleman and was soon walking side by side with Annette and Samus, with Marta next to her cousin and Baby hovering just above it's mommy. The five made their way to where the festival was being held. The entirety of the festival took up nearly the whole of the central part of the village. And nearly everybody was their; except for the ninja out on missions, or watching over the newly repaired entrance to the village. Konoha's construction team was very good at their jobs.

They arrived at the outskirts of the village grounds without too much hassle from the thickheaded villagers. Most of them were already at the festival anyways.

Naruto was awestruck, he had never been to any kind of festival before and all of the lights, lanterns, stands, sounds, and smells almost overwhelmed the youth. He was just about to bolt over to the closest game stand when a firm hand grasped his shoulder.

Naruto looked up to Samus' smiling face, "How about we all stick together," She said with emphasise on the word 'all', then looked over to her leader. "Sound good?"

"Agreed, Payback," Annette nodded before addressing Naruto. "It would be safest for everyonene if you stuck around with one of us. We wouldn't want you to eat all of the villagers before we make our offer, now would we." She ended with a smile.

"No, Lady Empress. I will not jeopardize the plans of the great Symbiote Hord. We apologize." Naruto replied.

"Excellent. Now then, We would like to visit our daughter before we meet up with our future meals.

Okay...so I decided to go up to four thousand...something words, instead of my normal three thousand something words...good idea or not?

I wonder what Hinata's reaction is gonna' be when she sees three attractive women around her Naruto...hum...

Now...Does anybody have a clue as to who Empress' daughter is...and before you gues...it is NOT Sherry Birkin...

Submit yourselves to the rule of Master Tyrant and your life shall be sparred. Go against Master Tyrant...and be violently raped by a hot chick in S&M gear using electric barb wire. Haha.