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.
Chapter 12 heading your way
The Black Leaves
Chapter 12
After departing from Konoha hospital ans ultamitly Otherworld; Naruto and his bunch headed back to his apartment. When they arrived Naruto suggested that the girls, and Baby, sleep in his bed and that he would take his old coach. Fortunatly for Venom's host niether Marta or Samus would hear a word of what Naruto said, and both forced him between themselves in Naruto's one-person bed with Baby ontop.
So, this was what Naruto awoke to the next morning. A very naked Samus snuggling against his left side, An equaly naked Marta peacfully snoozing on his right, and an unusually light Baby on his chest. He tried his hardest to focus on Baby's sudden loss of weight. With the many times Baby had jumped into his arms last night, Naruto had an idea of how heavy the creature was. What was on his chest at his moment felt a whole lot lighter this morning then it was last night.
Unfortunatly as Naruto tried to raise his head to see why Baby was so light Samus' mouth latched onto the side of his neck and began to suck on the flesh lightly. Naruto could only groan in frustration as his movement had become more limited. All he could do was lay down and just wait until the two female occupants ristricting him woke up.
Luckily for Naruto, Marta's eyes slowly opened and she turned her head to Naruto, "Good morning Lord Venom. We hope you slept well and were not molested by our cousin." The blunt and nearly emotionless way she said that almost made Naruto laugh, almost.
Marta rose up and gazed over to Samus, and the now lighter Baby. As her eyes set on it her eyes widened, "SAMUS!" She screamed loudly. Said girl jumped awake and glared at her cousin after frantically looking back in forth for the sudden source of noice.
"Wha' zit?" Samus slurred as she wipped the drool from from her mouth and the sleep from her eyes. Marta pointed to Naruto's chest. Samus looked to where Marta was pointing and her eyes widened as well. Seansing that something was wrong with the space alien, Naruto rose up and felt Baby's body roll off him and onto the bed.
Naruto looked down at Baby and, to his surprise, it was empty. The nucleic center and the inner tendrills were all missing from the creature's shell, along with with a large gash along the top of the membrane. It was surprisingly hard from what Naruto could tell from the sound it made as it fell from the bed.
The blond boy looked at Samus with worry etched on his face. If the display from last night was anything, he could only imagine what she would do to whomever did this to her Baby. What he saw was not what he was expecting. Naruto was expecting anger, hatred or sadness. He was dumb-struck by the giant grin on her pretty face.
"Um, S-Samus?" He addressed the girl, worry evident in his voice. Suddenly Samus tackled Naruto into a giant hug, causing both of them to sail past Marta and crash onto the hardwood floor. She straddled his midsection and pulled away from him. She placed her hands on either side of his head and smiled down at him.
"We're so happy," She beamed with tears forming in her blu-ish green eyes.
Naruto's head snapped over to the empty Baby and he pointed at it, "B-but isn't that Baby's body?"
Samus looked at were Naruto was pointing and could not help but give a joyious giggle, "Yes and no, our sweet Venaru." She cooed, still confusing Naruto, "What you see is our Baby's shedded shell. We assume that absorbing all of the energy out of that one Uchiha must have given Baby the power to grow into its next form in its evolutionary path."
"Okay," Naruto spoke out, "If that's true then where did Baby go. It was sleeping on me last night, and I don't think it wants to be to far away from its mama or papa." Naruto said without thinking, causing Samus to take his statement as more of a future proposal than a stated fact.
Samus got off Naruto and allowed the boy to stand just as a loud screech echoed through the small apartment followed by something flying into the room and knocked Naruto back down to the floor. Naruto instictivly grabbed the thing and looked down at it to see a bigger Baby. Dispite what Samus said about it evolving, the only differences that Naruto could see was a slight increase in Baby's size and its membrane had changed from green to a dull gray.
Baby hovered down to Naruto and snuggled into his chest, cooing apoligetically. Naruto gave it a light pat and told it that everything was fine, which illisited a happy scree from Baby.
After eveyone had dressed for the day and eaten their morning meal, Samus suddenly clapped her hands. "Because tommarrow is when we are going to be leaving and we have a few hours before Venaru has to go to the academy, we prepose that we teach Venaru here how to use his symbiotic abilities. Do you agree cousin Marta?"
The pink haired woman sipped her morning tea calmly and spoke, "If it involves you and our Lord going at it like rabbits than you can cut us out."
"Unfortunatly we don't have enough time to make love today, only train." Samus said in a defeated tone.
"Then we shall accompany you." Marta said with a nod of her head.
"Good. Venaru, you ready?" Samus quickly asked.
Having not been paying any attention to the conversation, said boy gave his most famous reply, "Huh?"
"Excellent!" And with that, the blond woman's left arm morphed into a large silver blade and she gave a swiped at Naruto. Without thinking, Naruto's head moved back an inch and just barely avoided the lethal strike.
"What the Hell Samus?" Naruto shouted as the woman gave a downward swipe and cut the kitchen table clean in two. Marta still sat their sipping her tea as if nothing had happened. Samus swipped at Naruto while he continued to dodge without any thought of his own movements.
"You are doing great Naruto." Samus stated with glee only to get a raised eyebrow from her target. Seeing his confusion, she halted her attacks and answered his unasked question, "Have you not realized that you have been dodging every single one of my attacks? My attacks are too random for any normal, chakra-less, individual to track."
Now that Naruto had a moment to actually think, he did notice his reactions to each of the attacks aimed at them. He could not explain it but it was like he knew just where and when the attack was coming and his body moved on its own to avoid taking damage. He had almost no control over where or what he dodged.
"That is just a small bit of the power that Lord Venom can provide for you, and you don't even have control over him. Can you imagine the power you will have when you can control our Lord?" She spoke enthusiastically as she started her onslaught once again. "Lets see how long you can dodge!" She shouted with glee.
Naruto's eyes widened as her right arm transformed into blade and a sadistic smile formed on her pretty lips.
Just outside the Village Hidden in the Leaves...
'I wanna' go home.' The thoughts of a tall white figure echoed in its own mind. The figure was perched on a tree limb shout on the outside of Konoha's massive gate way. The construction crew had been working none stop to get the massive gate repaired as quickly as possible. They had just finished painting it an hour ago.
'Paitents young one. After we have removed the evil that is Venom from the Earth shall we return to your loving family. If he is still as mentally destroyed as he was in our last meeting, then this fight shall not last long.' Anti-Venom responded to his young host. He looked at the village gate then at the two gaurds standing at attention. He could not help the smile that formed on his black lips.
And with that, Anti-Venom lept down from his perch and caught the attention of the guards. "Halt, state your name and business with Konohagakure." One of the gaurds demanded as Anti-Venom approached the gate. Both of the ninja got into defensive poses and studied the tall figure. His white skin and thin build gave the gaurds the impression that it was Orochimaru in an terrible diguise. Or some freak in a suit.
The symbiote stopped and gave a respectable bow to both of the gaurds. "I am Anti-Venom. I was hired by the Hokage to hunt down and exterminate an unspecified evil that has been terrrorizing your village."
"I don't remember being told about this." One of the gaurds said to his partner.
The other shrugged his shoulders, "Maybe the Hokage finally got smart and hired this guy is here to kill the demon brat so that nobody in the village could be blammed."
Both gaurds looked the newcomer and one of them stepped forward, "Do you have the proper paper work, Anti-Venom?"
"No, sir. I do not, but if you could take me to the Hokage then it should not be a problem, no?" The symbiote responded.
Again the two ninja glanced at each other before one of them spoke, "You will accompany me to the Hokage Tower and we can then see if your story trully checks out." One of the guards began towards said tower and was followed by the taller symbiote. The other gaurd returned to his post as the two walked into the hidden village.
The two continued to the tower when a grunt from behind brought the gaurds attention to Anti-Venom. Or, it would have if the symbiote was still behind him. The man looked around frantically for the white figure, but could not find a single trase of him.
'Thats impossible!' The gaurd thought. 'I should have been able to sense any chakra used by that guy. But I didn't feel a thing!' The gaurd looked around for a few moments more before heading to the Hokage's office to inform his leader of the white figure.
Back with Naruto...
After Marta finished her morning tea, she joined in the cat-and-mouse style training. By then, though, Naruto and Samus had moved outside of the boy's apartment and said boy was currently hiding in on of the many back allys near the slums of Konoha. The only other people that he could see were two prostitutes that he had snuck past on his way to find a hidding place from the two crazy girls.
While Samus continued her assult using her bladed arms, Marta decided to use her symbiote's special ability. Which was filling her four lungs with a highly volitial acid and luanching them at her target. Thus, both, causing an explosion and coating the local vacinety in the same, acidic liquid. Naruto found out the hard way just how sensitive the liquid was. 'Rest in piece, my most favorite jacket.' Naruto prayed. The fact that his living room was coated in the substance now ment that his apartment was obviously off limits in this twisted game.
'Damn it, Venom!' Naruto shouted inside his mind. 'I know you can hear me in there you damn goo ball! Why the Hell aren't you helping me? I know neither of us what to be blown up or rapped; or at least I don't, I'm not 100% sure on your outlook on that subject.' Naruto ended his thoughts in a more questioning tone than the angry one he started out with.
As Naruto continued to rant at the, literal, mindless beast within, he failed to notice a figure aproach him from behind. He did notice the two female symbiote arms wrap around his waist and the pair of blu-silver breasts press onto the back of his head.
"We found you~." Payback's voice gleefully sang out. Naruto's face reddened as Payback's breasts pressed harder and her hands started moving lower. "What's our prize?" She giggled. As her hands reached the top of his pants, Naruto's eyes snapped to the only other two people in the general area. The prostitutes were way too close for the blond's comfort.
Naruto pulled free from the perverted symbiote's grasp, then twirled around and shoved her against a wall in one of the darker parts of the alley. The last thing he wanted was two of the villagers spying a horny alien feeling him up in an alley in the slums. That would probably send mixed messages.
"Oh," The silver-ish lady moaned. "Does our love wish to dominate us? Does he wish to take us as hard as possible and turn us into a hot puddle of sex juice?" She asked in a seductive tone.
Naruto turned redder when he realized that his hands were just centimeters away from Payback's beautiful breasts. He would have yanked his hands away faster than one could say "Free ramen". But something else caught his attention.
He snapped his head over to the right and set his eyes on a single spot on a building wall. There was something calling him. He did not know what. Naruto could not hear anything, but he could have sworn that something was calling or pulling him towards something. Then, suddenly Naruto felt different. He felt empty; not the kind of empty that one experiances when hungery, but a different sort of empty. Like as if a part of him had gone missing and that it was somewhere else and that he dessperatly needed it. That missing piece was calling him.
"Need it. Want it. Make us complete. Make us whole. We must become together!" He pratically shouted before bolting in the direction his head was facing. Or, he would have if both of Payback's breasts did not think that his hands looked like a good snack. Naruto let out a howl of pain which soon ended when Payback slammed her forehead into the blond's. Naruto was out like a light.
"Ugh, damn it." Payback cursed as she hoisted the unconcsious Naruto over her shoulder, making sure that her hand was firmly planted on his ass. 'Anti-Venom was not supposed to reviale himself untill we were 100% certian on the cause of Lord Venom's condition. That fuckwad is gonna' regret trying to confront Venom now. We'll need to inform Lady Empress about this and have Revenge help keep him distracted,' Her already scary face became even more terrifying as a scowl appeared and replaised the happy expression she had on earlyer. She quickly scaled the wall in the inhuman way that all symbiotes do. Moving their spines from side to side, somewhat like a lizard's, as their clawed hands and feet gripped into whatever surface was being climbed.
She climbed over the edge of the wall and continued her quadripedal movements acrose the building's roof until she reached the other side. She rose back to her bipedal stance and scanned the area until she spotted the general area that housed the ninja academy. Payback squated down as she prepared her legs for a mighty leap. Unlike ninja, who jump over short distances but at incredable speeds using as little energy as possible. The symbiote race use a great deal of power in their impressive movements, traveling at a much slower pace but covering great distances using only the strenght in their legs. Also, because of the symbiote ability to adhere to any surface they did not have to worry about finding any sort of foothold while ninja did.
Because of the need to think about their landing location ninja had to use a great amount of energy and brain power focused on where they were standing, how they were standing, and their entire stance. About 65% of a symbiote's brain focused on all of that subconsciously, thus allowing the symbiote to conciously focus on the current situation without the worries of a ninja.
Payback uncoiled her legs and launched her body high into the air. She landed a great distance away on the roof of another building; the impact caused a large web of cracks to appear on the surface. She leapt into the air once agian but did not use as much force as her last jump and landed on another building a block away from the academy. She layed Naruto down on the roof and lowered her head. Her symbiotic tongue creeped out from between her jaws and slowly ran it along the boy's left cheek. Getting no response from the action Payback thought up a devious plan on waking her Lord.
She tossed her head back and shouted, "Lord Venom!" Forcing the boy to be jolted out of his unconscious state and opened his mouth to yell out when Payback snapped her head foreword and her tongue, which was still sticking out of her mouth, streached out and flew directly into Naruto's open mouth. His eyes widened in shock as Payback's tongue ran itself over every crevis in his young mouth. Naruto grabbed the invasive appendege and tried to yank it out of his mouth as it ran along his teeth only to have Payback's tongue wrap itslef around his own and pull both out.
The silver-blue symbiote leaned forword and slightly parted her fangs a bit more. Her face closed in on Naruto's until it was just a centimeter away. Her tongue tugged Naruto's into her mouth and she gently bit down on the pink appendege, just enough to hold it not cause any harm.
"How do we taste?" She was able to say clearly even with Naruto's tongue in her mouth. The way she asked the question had a mix of her usual seductive tone and a sinser question. Naruto just starred at her for a moment.
"'ains an thoclete." Was all he was able to say. Payback looked at him curiously before relizing that she still had his tongue trapped between her jaws. She quickly let him go.
Naruto retracted his slightly red tongue and looked up at Payback after taking a calming breath, "What the Hell is wrong with you!" He shouted. "That was just plain wierd and disgusting!"
Payback shrugged, "Its just been soooo long since we've had a taste of you, that we just could not resist the opertunaty," She then leaned foreword and her wicked jaws widened into a grin, "What was your answer?"
Naruto sighed, "I said 'brains and choloate'. Your tongue tasted like brains and chocolate." He said barely above a whisper as his face brightned red. Aparently Payback liked his answer since she nodded her head then suddenly shoved Naruto off the roof. Caught off gaurd Naruto crashed to the ground on his chest with his legs haning over his head. "Damn it, Payback. What is wrong with you today?" He shouted as he got up and dusted himself off.
Payback only chuckled and waved off his question. "You had better get to class or you'll be late," She chuckled as Naruto's eyes widened and he bolted for the academy only to realize he was going the wrong way and double back.
As Naruto's image fanished from her view, Payback's mirth dissappeared and was replaced by seriousness. She leapt off the roof and began her search for her cousin and her love's other, a.k.a. Anti-Venom.
Meanwhile...
Annette was currently sitting at the massive table that centered the council meeting room. Across from her sat the Hokage, and in between the two was a bleached white document. The peace treaty between the village of Konohagakure and the Symbiote Horde. The treaty was what you would normally expect between to villages with powerful military forces.
If one village is under attack, the other must assist. Goods must be traded. And a reprasinative of each village must always be in touch with the council members of every village. The usuall stuff.
Annette re-read the terms of the peace treaty several more times before smiling and signing the document which was handed to Sarutobi to sign. After the old man signed the paper the whol Konoha council sat down in their own designated seats.
"Now that that has been taken' care of," One of the civilian council members began. "Let us discuss who shall represent our villages." A slight wave of murmers filled the room before Annette stood up and addressed the council.
"There will be no need for that. We have already decided to leave our daughter here as our represinative and we have given one of your own ninja our special gift. So, they shall be your reprisenative." She spoke in a 'that is final' tone.
"Who is it?" A coucil women shouted as she stood. "If they are not up to our standerds then-," The women was silenced when the Hokage raised his hand to signal said command. He had not taken his eyes off of the woman that sat across from him. The untrust in his eyes was obvious to a wet-behind-the-ears academy student.
"She has made her dissision and we must respect the wishes of such a powerful ruler as Miss Birkin," The aged warrior said.
The meeting continued as any other. Village happenings, who was selling what, what the trade items were for the new allies, Tsume reading porn hidden under the table, the normal of a council meeting.
With Naruto at the academy...
The blond idiot made it to class just before the bell rang and slumped into his seat next tro Hinata.
"G-good morning, Naruto-kun." Hinata spoke.
"Good morning, Hinata. I didn't see you at the festival last night. Did you go?" Naruto asked the Hyuuga.
Hinata's face reddned as the memories flashed through her mind. After she, Tenten and Ami saw Samus tackle Naruto. The trio went straight to Tenten's house and took every single relationship help book, couples magazine and smutty novel the bun-headed girl owned and studed them furiously. Or at least Hinata did, Tenten fell asleep soon after they arrived at her house and Ami fingered herself while reading a scene from a smutty porn novel that involved a widow and her long-time male friend fucking in her kitchen.
After it started to get late, Hinata took as many books and magizines she could carry back home and fell asleep soon after. Currently she was in the middle of a book titled 'How to Attack A Man' only, Hinata crossed out the word man and wrote Naruto in big red letters.
"Y-yes, I went to the f-festival. I was with my f-father the whole t-time though," She mumbled.
Naruto nodded his head in understanding just Iruka and Mizuki walked into the classroom. After Mizuki's leg disappeared inside Venom's gullet, the silver-haired chunin was out of commision for a while. That is, until a trader from a far off country came to the village and offered him an artificial leg, made out of something called auto-mail. Mizuki was being forced to take extra missions along with his teaching career to pay off his new debt.
As the class settled down, Iruka cleared his throat a sure sign that he was making an announcment. "Now class, starting today you will all began your examination for graduation. The entire exam will be take place over the course of the month. During that time every single movment you make, word you say, every little thing you do will be graded by us. One the last week of the month a final exam will be given along with your final evaluation." The scared ninja lectured.
"But before we begin," Iruka's silver-haired assistant spoke out. "We have a new student arriving. I know its pretty late in the semester for a new student to join, but she is the daughter of our new alliy's leader. That is all I'm allowed to tell you, so please be nice to her and show her what the ninja of Konoha trully are." He motioned over to the door, "Please enter Alessa."
A soft clicking could be heard approaching the door coupled with a sudden drop in tempurature. Suddenly, Akamaru began to whimper and hide inside Kiba's jacket while Shino's many insects crawled back inside their human hive. Even a spider that had made its home in a corner of the room crawled into a crack in a panicy manner. A thin fog seeping into the room from underneath the door and only increased everone's curiousity. Everyone but Naruto that is.
The door slowly opened and a large plum of fog flew into the room and made everyone temperary blinded by the white cloud. No body could see a thing except for the fog. The screams and shouts of surprise almost drowned out the clicking sound that entered the classroom. Slowly the fog dissapaited slightly, it was still evident in the room but now everything could be seen, including the new occupant.
It was the same hospital bed that Naruto saw Nightmare in the night before, except for were the legs of the bed should have been. Instead was a ghastly monstrosity with the bed tied to its back with rusted barbwire. The creature's body was similar to a praying mantis' in bothshape and limb placement, excluding its head. The monster's body was a pale white in color and distictively human in apperance beyond its mantis-like shape, with the bloody and raw flesh located mostly at the being's limbs joints and were it was strapped to the bed. It's four legs appeared to be human arms but with the hands cut off at the wrist and replaesed with rusted blades. The bladed legs walking on the floor were what was making that clicking noise. At the monster's torso was a pair of mutilated breasts that looked more like raw meat than the chest of a woman. The obviously female beast's arms were held in the traditional 'praying' position that mantids were known for and her, surprisingly dainty, hands had sharp long nails.
The monster's neck was almost as long as its entire body and was composed of just a few bloody strands of meat. At the end of her neck rested the creature's head. Her head was held upside down, was horribly scarred, and was split comtletly in half. The two halves of her head was lined with crooked fangs and her eyes were completly black. The beast's hair was long and reached to her collorbone and was a creepy crimson with several strands tangled around her neck.
Everyone in the classroom was silent as the monster turned her head to Iruka and dipped down in an akward bow. Unconsciously Iruka bowed as well. "A-Alessa?"
The she-demon shoke her head and moved her right arm, which loud cracking sounds could be heard from as it moved, to point at the hostpital bed on her back. "...In...There..." The monster spoke in a whispering scream type of voice.
Iruka looked at the curtian covored bed and noticed a slight siloheate of a figure lying in the bed. The rest of the class was silent as each student gazed at the being and passed their own judgjment on it.
"W-well, okay," Mizuki tried to speak out in his instructer voice, but it came out more scared then confident. "We don't appear to have any seats available for you at the mome-," Before he could finish, the monster made its way up the isle of desks until it reached the back next to Naruto and turned around to face the front of the classroom.
"Very well," Iruka spoke up once again.
Well, there you go my readers. Chapter 13 is done.
As for the monster carrying Nightmare around on her back. I think I'm gonna' give her the apropriet name, "The Prayer". As to what she reprisents, I have no real clue yet. Her insect like form is from Alessa's interest in the insect kingdom. Her head probably reprisents the upside down way people view the world. As for the rest of her body, give me some ideas of what you think she reprisents.
And, to get everyone off my back, yes Hinata will be getting a symbiote.
Read and review folks.