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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.
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The Black Leaves
Chapter 38
It had been several weeks since anyone had seen or heard anything from Uzumaki Naruto, and his family was worried sick. No one in charge knew what mission Naruto had been put on and thus had no clue as to where he could be. Considering he was the Fourth Hokage's first-born as well as the container of the dreaded Nine-Tailed Demon Fox, there were vastly mixed feeling's about his unknown whereabouts by the villagers. Do to his current state, Minato had allowed the Third Hokage to take charge of his usual duties for the time being.
The Fourth had called a meeting of every important individual within the walls of the Hidden Leave Village. Naruto's mother was sitting next to her husband with a tired and worried expression. She had just been reunited with her child and suddenly had no idea where he was; what else should a mother feel but worry for her lost son?
"We need to devise a search team to find my son." Minato said in the calmest voice he could muster. "I want every available tracking ninja in this village to search for him." He gently placed a hand over the clenched and shivering hands of his wife's hands.
"Come now, sir." Said Random Council Member Number 3. "Your son is a highly trained ninja, I am sure that he is perfectly fine. I fell that everyone here can agree that young Naruto has the talent and capability to survive whatever situation might have presented itself during his mission."
A majority of the people present agreed and tried to calm down the Fourth Hokage and his wife. This continued for quit some time; Minato and Kushina trying to push methods to find their son and nearly everyone else trying to calm them down and telling them not worry. As was expected, their words fell on deaf ears the Minato started to get pushy on his demands.
Said blond-haired clan leader was about to explode and demand that the villagers follow his orders when an attendant quickly walked into the meeting room and handed Minato a paper before leaving just as quickly. Minato quickly scanned over the paper and his eyes widened in shock before he quickly bolted through the door.
He ran to the Hokage office but did not see the Third Hokage; so instead he bolted for the entrance to the building and found the old man standing just outside the entrance. Sarutobi looked worse-for-wear; his eyes had large bags underneath them as well as his skin had taken on a sickly green color. It was obvious that the Third knew what was going to happen and did not like it at all one tiny bit.
"What is the meaning of this!?" Minato demanded as he held up the paper the attendant had handed him. Written on the paper was the Third Hokage's signature agreeing to a mass execution of nearly fifty prisoners held within the village's prison. The execution was to happen near the village entrance. The paper did not state why these prisoners would be executed or even what their crimes were.
Apparently the order for their execution had been handed out earlier than Minato thought since he could see the massive line of prisoners already marching to the village entrance. They all wore the standard prison outfit and were all linked together via chakra negating chains connected to their wrists and ankles. An escort of prison guards were on either side of the throng. The little parade of criminals attracted a lot of attention and people started following the line, curious as to what was going to happen.
When the village entrance came into view, some of the prisoners had expressions of joy on their face while others were either skeptical or fearful at what was about to happen. Just before they reached the entrance, all of the guards created a large circle around prisoners while the chains connecting them to one another were severed.
Now more of the prisoners thought they might go free as the chains binding their wrists and ankles together were cut as well. The prisoners were now only bound by the chakra negating braces still around their wrists and ankles. Several of the criminals tried to walk out of the village entrance only to be blocked by the guards circling around them all.
Sarutobi walked around the group and stood at the entrance of the village staring out at the main road out of the village. He stood there and continued to stare off into the distance for well over an hour; when a shape started to loom over the horizon. The shape slowly got closer until it could be made out as the silhouette of a man.
Before the full visage of the man could be seen; the wind brought with it a horrible smell. The sudden reeking scent caught a large number off guard; the smell of something that had been rotting in the hot sun for a long period of time. It was when the man was easily visible did the crowd of guards, criminals, and civilians all react.
The man's skin was a dirty gray tone, while his clothes had been shredded into just a few rags covering around his waste and over his left shoulder along with some heavily damaged shin-guards. Several arrows could be seen sticking out of random parts of the man's body except for his left arm; which had be completely cut off just above the elbow.
The obviously living corpse slowly shambled it's way closer and closer to the village with the prison guards getting down into their respective attacking positions. It was only the motion of the Hokage commanding it did the trained soldiers lower their guard.
The walking corpse came to a halt just a few feet away from the Hokage and the head lulled over to the side. Sarutobi looked at the corpse for a moment before sighing heavily and stepping aside while motioning for the guards to do the same. They did with some hesitation.
The corpse shambled closer before stopping right at the village entrance and suddenly shuddering. A black substance started to leak out of the many holes and cuts of the body and began to slowly cover the body while dripping onto the ground as a viscous liquid. The liquid did not cover the few rags covering the body as it slowly dripped to the ground.
Once the entire corpse was covered; the entire mass just collapsed onto itself while leaving the rags on the floor. The mass crawled closer to the mass of criminals; who were all backing away, before slowly forming a large bulb in the middle. The bulb grew and grew until it was about half the size of an average man.
It then split into three separate thin parts near the top. The two farthest apart pieces slowly shaped themselves into very thin and drippy arms ending in dripping clawed hands. The middle section rounded out a bit before turning into an all too familiar shaped head; only the fangs were as black as the rest of the semi-liquid body and there was no real back-of-the-head and the white eyes were thin enough to see right through.
The eyes of the blob focused on the closest criminal before rearing back and lunching straight forward. It was only thanks to the Hokage's quick reaction that the man wasn't killed, but a large stone slab appeared in between the Venom-blob and his prey. The black mass splattered against the barrier and quickly reformed into his terrifying visage.
Venom turned his partially formed head and hissed loudly at the Hokage; who returned the hiss with a vile glare of his own. The two continued to stare each other down when something whizzed right through Venom's liquid torso and splashed his puddle-like lower half. The object was a kunai knife with an explosive tag quickly burning up tied to the weapon.
Small tendrils appeared out of the black puddle and quickly engulfed the burning paper; snuffing out the dangerous weapon. Venom calmly turned his head in the direction of where the bomb came from and saw Naruto's father standing on the roof of a nearby building. Venom's dripping face quickly curled up into a vile smile as he arched hid form forward and brought his dripping claws closer to prepare for a fight.
Again, the older of the two Hokage's had to step in. "Minato; halt." His voice was stern and held no room for negotiation. He stepped closer to the liquid alien and stared down at the monster. "You have plagued this village for far too long demon," He said in the same tone. "You have destroyed our homes and businesses and have killed countless numbers of innocent people."
The crowd started to cheer lightly in the hopes of one of the village's demons finally being removed.
"You are a dangerous threat to this village and should be removed immediately...or killed." Again, the crowd's cheering increased as well as several jeers could be heard. "But," This silenced the crowd. "I did not become the leader of the most powerful village in the world by missing promising opportunities and taking advantage of such."
His glare hardened. "So, I will give you this ultimatum; either live this village or stay and protect this village with your life. If you leave, my soldiers will hunt you down for the rest of your life. If you choose to stay and protect this village and it's people, then you will have a steady supply of food as well as the word of the Hokage that you will no longer be attacked by any of the ninja under the command of the Hokage."
The old man and the alien continued to stare each other down until Venom gave a defeated hiss and turned his head in aggravation. A small victorious smile appeared on Sarutobi's aged face before he canceled the stone slab separating Venom from his food.
"You may feed as long as you only consume the one's garbed in prisoner clothing; and promise your loyalty to this village and it's people."
Venom looked at his meal then back to the Third Hokage and then to the Fourth. His dripping grin grew slightly at the sight of disgust upon his host's father's face. He turned back to his prey and stretched his clawed arm out around the entire group, creating a barrier separating them from the rest of the villagers.
Slowly, Venom brought his arms closer together; dragging the terrified criminals into a tighter and tighter group. When the group was tight enough, Venom reared his entire form up and slowly spread his mass wide enough to cast a shadow over the whole group. His liquid body continued to stretch over the criminals until it was completely over them.
Then, he just fell on top of the group and quickly enveloped them in his elongated body. Muffled shouts and screams could be heard from within the large black mass as it slowly started to shrink and constrict the prey held within. As the black mass shrank, the cracking of bone along with death cries were coupled with the visuals of prisoner clothing being left on the ground; clean of any organic matter.
Over time, the screaming died down as did the sounds of cracking bones and bursting organs. The amorphous blob that once covered a large number of people was now a much smaller size. Slowly, definition started to form on the blob; becoming something recognizable as well as feared.
"Ah, much better." Venom groaned after he had completely reformed; but prevented his extra arms from sprouting out to keep his host's identity secret. He looked his self over to make sure everything was there before turning his gaze to the old man in charge.
"You play a cruel game old man. But we can do oh so much worse. We will honor our agreement, but the very moment you can not accomplish your end of the bargain; we will continue our hunt on any unlucky prey that catches our eye." He laughed before leaping up onto a nearby rooftop and jumping away.
Minato leaped down and landed next to his elder. "What was that?!" He nearly shouted through gritted teeth. "You had the demon right in your hands and you let it go?! How can we trust that thing to help this village in the slightest when all it has caused is death and destruction?"
Sarutobi sighed and started walking back to the Hokage's Tower while motioning for Minato to walk with him. The crowd quickly dispersed as the two Hokage left and the people of the village went back to whatever they had been doing before the whole fiasco had started.
"Now, Minato, I should not have to tell you how to be a good leader. But I feel like I must if you do not see how I know the demon will do exactly as I said." He inhaled and prepared to give a long lecture. It had been a long time since he had to do as such. "This demon is not like the one that attacked the village so many years ago. This one is different, intelligent, has motives and basic needs. It is less like a demon and more like a bestial human if you think about it. So, instead of treating the demon as some destructive force of nature without any source of control; treat it like an unstable but mentally functional human...or very very smart wild beast. Since the demon first appeared in this village, I have taken very careful notes on its behavior and mannerisms. It only kills when looking for food or when attacked, very rarely has it ever attacked unprovoked; and it appears that these attacks are triggered in more of a territorial dispute than mindless acts of aggression."
Minato walked silently along with Sarutobi as he talked; giving a fake smile and wave to random villagers that they passed on their way to the tower.
"So, to insure that it stops its hunting of the villagers; I constructed a deal with it. As you heard, I will offer it food; but what will it be since we already know that the demon eats living prey? Well, to appease both this demon and the council, I will be offering our criminals. Since we constantly have a slew of traitors, spies or whatever scum that can be found hiding in the shadows; we have an almost unlimited supply of food for the demon to feed on. So, it will keep it satisfied as well as please the council and villagers that such dangers are no longer an issue."
Minato was silent throughout the old man's speech and began to see the logic in his words. But that did not mean that the blond man liked the fact that demon was allowed to roam free in his village since he worked so hard to get rid of the first one.
"Very well." He said calmly. "I will honor this agreement." He leaned in closer to his older adviser as they walked through the Hokage's Tower entrance. "But the very instant that freak does something I don't like; I'll have every able-bodied member of this village on it's sorry ass."
Sarutobi nodded in understanding before gripping his shoulder and stretching his neck as the two arrived in front of the Hokage's office. "I've got to finish all the paperwork you decided to push onto me." The old man said with a snarl.
Minato nodded before going his own way. Sarutobi opened the door to his office and saw Venom sitting on his desk with his arms crossed and left foot tapping the floor. "We have a problem."
"I know, I know. I sprung that deal up on such short notice, but believe me; it'll work out for everyone in this village." The old man said with a sigh as he closed his office door.
"Not that problem; we'll talk about that little fiasco later. We have a much, much bigger problem that will also involve this village and every single thing living in it."
Now that, had the Hokage's attention. He took a few steps away from the door and lit his pipe and took a large inhale before expelling a large plume of smoke and transfixing his eyes on the alien in front of him.
"Tell me."
So, for the next hour, Venom explained about the xenophage; how he failed to kill it as well as the danger it posses for the Village Hidden in the Leaves.
"Are you sure it will head here?!"
Venom nodded his head. "When it went inside us," He held his head with one hand "We could feel it, it searching. Searching for our hive. It is hunting us, humans and symbiotes." He brought another hand up to his head "But, but it is scared. It knows who we are. It knows it won't win by itself. It is going to find help."
"How much did that thing get out of you?!" Sarutobi seethed as he leaned in closer. If this monster knew enough about the village, it could easily ally itself when any enemy of the village with just a tiny bit of information that they should not know.
"Not much, just the location of the village and that our host's father has returned. Speaking of our host; he will not be showing up for a little while longer. We are still busy reconstructing his body from those we've recently fed on. His mind is still in here, with us."
"So, you have no clue when or how this...thing will attack our home?" The old man questioned.
"We may not know when, but we do know how. It will disguise itself as whatever it can to sneak in, then it will start eating everything it can. You think we are bad, at least we don't eat everything in sight. If we did that, we'd run out of food." Venom chuckled wickedly.
"So," The Hokage started as he pulled out some parchment, a quill and a bottle of ink. "We need to first figure out how we will detect this...xenophage." Venom nodded before striking a thinking pose.
"That will be a difficult task to accomplish since they can hide their sent as well as their physical appearance." Venom lowered his head as he thought long and hard on how to detect a rouge xenophage trying to sneak into the village. "The only thing we can think of is to use bait." He said solemnly.
The old man looked straight at the large alien. "You expect me to use the children of this village as bait?"
Venom simply shrugged. "Nothing is more appetizing to a xenophage than a scared child. A large enough group of them would be irresistible to such a worm. If you want a better plan, talk to someone that has studied these things. We've just hunted them."
Venom got up and went over to the window. "While you do that, we will take our leave. Since Little Naruto is out of commission; we will have some fun exploring and 'playing' with the villagers." He laughed before leaping out.
Venom landed on the roof of a nearby building and stretched. "Now, who wants to play?" He said to himself as he leaned over the building's edge.
"That old man may have given you free-rein over the village, but that doesn't mean I like you." A voice from behind said.
"We didn't think it would." Venom responded. "But we know you won't go against his word either since it would be such a shame to see so many of your people be turned into food just because of your hot-headed attitude. You really are like your wife sometimes, hehe."
Venom could here a weapon being drawn. "Ah, ah aaaah. You wouldn't want to break the old man's deal so soon." The sound of the weapon being holstered reached the symbiote. "Good boy, now leave us so we may find some form of entertainment that doesn't involving eating some hapless moron."
The alien waited for a few moments and when the other person on the roof did not leave, Venom sighed before leaping high off the building and fading away. He landed a few rooftops away and removed his camouflage before laying down and hanging his long head over the edge of the building with his long tongues hanging out. He gave a heavy sigh of boredom as he watched the village citizens go about their daily life on the street below.
To be honest, Venom was bored without having anyone to hunt or harass and couldn't come up with anything to occupy his self. He was about to get up and go somewhere else when a flash of pink caught his attention. It was Haruno Sakura going about her day, walking down the street to a restaurant that she often went to when not busy. A vile smile grew in Venom's lips as he began to follow the pink-haired from the rooftops.
When he was just a single rooftop away from the restaurant; Sakura suddenly leapt backwards then straight up. Venom calmly watched as she landed on the roof and brandished two kunai knives in each of her hands. Her green eyes were hard and her body was positioned to strike at the monster before her, but before she could make any sort of attack on the monster; she remembered the words she was told by a fellow village ninja and straightened her posture.
"Word travels fast it seems, hehe." Venom chuckled before fully turning to face Sakura.
"Why are you following me?!" The girl said in a demanding voice.
Venom shrugged. "We thought that you would finally like to thank us in person."
"Thank you for what?!" Her expression did not change from the dutiful glare still gracing her cute face.
"Aw, did you forget already? We'd think you'd remember us doing such a good favor for you." The alien said with fake hurt in his demonic voice before he chuckled again. Sakura just continued to glare at the beast silently.
"Did mommy tell you some little lie instead? Did you ever wonder what ever happened to your daddy?"
Sakura's gaze hardened more.
"Ah, have you finally figured it out? That's right, we killed your poor old daddy. So, a nice 'thank you' is all we are asking for."
If Sakura was shocked, her face did not show it; instead she stood straight up and gave a slight head nod. "My father was a horrible man. I will not ask what you did to him; but I am sure it was worse than even he deserved."
"Oh, we highly doubt that."
Sakura did not say anything in response and prepared to leave when a black tentacle wrapped itself around her ankle.
"Since we are no longer public enemy number one; why don't you show us around the village? We would love to mingle in with the cattle, plus you owe us at least that much for ridding you of your family pest."
Sakura's icy glare grew harder but she eventually gave in to the demon's demand for the tiny bit of fear that he might kill her if she refused. Without saying anything, Sakura leapt off the roof and landed daintily on the ground; Venom landed with a hard thud.
"Lead the way." He said with a wicked smile. The pink-haired ninja turned with a huff and started walking with the large monster following right behind. To say that the pair drew attention was an understatement.
Unbeknownst to the pair, a set of pale eyes was watching their every move.
"What could Naruto-kun be doing walking around with her while dressed like that?" Hyuuga Hinata whispered to herself.
'I'm sure it is probably for some sort of prank darling. I doubt our Naruto would be attracted to some hostless cow.' The alien inside of the Hyuuga spoke her opinion. Hinata did not respond but proceeded to trail behind the larger symbiote for the rest of the day.
Venom's wicked grin stayed plastered on his monstrous face as he walked behind Sakura. The crowd was quick to disperse as the pair walked through the crowded village streets. As they walked, Venom decided to strike up an interesting conversation.
"We thought that you would have figured out who we are by this point in time. We are disappointed."
"What on Earth are you talking about?!" Sakura replied hotly.
Venom chuckled. "You don't honestly believe this is our only body?"
Sakura stopped and turned her head a bit, raising a inquisitive eyebrow at the symbiote. His wicked face grew once again into a wide smile.
"We are so much more than we appear. Oh so much more. Have you never noticed that we are not always out and about? Since we believe that if we were, this village would never stop running around like a group of pants-less ninnies." He chuckled lightly.
"Then just who, or what are you? Because from what I can see, you are most definitely not human."
Venom did not respond for a moment and saw another familiar face just up ahead sitting on a bench. "Oh, we are human though. Only half of us is what you see; the other half walks amongst you in complete sight. The problem is that you can never know who we are. You can never sense us, hear, smell; Hell you could taste our human counterpart and never even know." His smile grew. "In fact, you see us almost every day in our human form. You already know who we are." His grin grew impossibly large. "Now, we have some fun to have."
The larger creature gently pushed Sakura aside as he walked over to an all too familiar set of spiky hair. Letting out a long stream of rotting breath caused the person attached to the spiky locks to wretch and turn around and see the face of Venom. Inuzuka Tsume tried to jump back and prepare for a fight when a large clawed hand grabbed her arm and pulled her closer to the symbiote.
The woman tried to struggle but another hand quickly came down and pinned her other arm against her side. She pulled both of her legs to her chest before trying to slam both of her feet into the symbiote's chest. Her sandals sank into Venom's chest and held fast, preventing her from pulling her feet out. Tsume tried to whistle for her ninja-trained dogs to come for assistance, but a glob of black goo quickly covered her mouth before she could even move it. The woman then continued to try struggle free, but to no avail.
Venom held her for a minute or so before getting bored of her struggling and lightly tapped her forehead with his snout. "Hey! Calm down you irate hound. We just wanted to talk." He hissed. Tsume struggles for a little while longer before finally slowing down and eventually stopping all together. "Finally calmed down? Good." He plopped the woman back onto the bench hard enough to truly get her attention before removing the goop covering her mouth.
"What the fuck do you want freak?!" She spat violently.
"Such violent language." Venom said with pretend hurt. "And here, we were thinking that we would apologize for out past transgressions against you. And for snapping your leg like a burnt twig."
Tsume had to resist spitting at the symbiote's smug face. "Why the flying fuck should I accept your sorry bitch-ass apology?!" She barked loudly.
"Your still just as feisty as back then. And with such foul language for such a 'sweet' mother of two. No wonder your son acts so hot-headedly."
"Don't you fucking dare touch my children!" She growled through gritted teeth. "If you touch a single hair on their heads I will personally see you ripped apart by my fucking dogs."
Venom chuckled lowly. "You think we are scared of a few mutts? A dog is nothing more than a mere snack for us." He gave another chuckle. "Besides, we already know your son more than you or him thinks. Now, do you accept our apology or not?"
This time, Tsume did not resist and spat directly onto one of Venom's unblinking eyes. The symbiote gave a heavy sigh before wiping the saliva off his eye. "And here we were hoping for a nice and civilized conversation. Such an uncouth woman; no wonder that snake-woman enjoys your company." He slowly leaned his head closer to the mother's face. "Or is there another reason we see the scantily clad women enter into your window at night?" Venom let his tongues slowly travel right close to Tsume's cheeks, but not touch her skin while letting out a low airy noise.
"Your nothing more than a psychotic pervert!" Tsume growled. The woman didn't blush since it was true. She and Mitarashi Anko were more than friends but less than a couple. Being alone and around hormonal and mating dogs can put pressure on one's nerves as well as build up a Hell of a lot'a sexual frustration.
"That reminds us. Where is that crazy woman? We wanted to see just how much a freak that woman can truly be." The parasite chuckled perversely as he pretended to look around and search for the previously mentioned snake wielding ninja.
"Why would that concern you?" Tsume glanced down and noticed the lack of visible genitalia when a smirk appeared on her face. "Looks to me that your not equipped to do anything let alone play with Mitarashi-chan." A wicked smirk graced her face.
Venom looked at her inquisitively before looking down to where her eyes where. "Now, now. Let us not go and do anything hurtful. After all. We have more than one way of playing around. But we doubt you would be able to handle it for too long."
As the two continued to argue/fight/throw random insults to each other; Sakura stared hard at the black beast's impressive form. She raked her brain furiously trying to figure out the human identity of the monster. The very fact that the beast admitted to not being completely inhuman as well as a person she knew greatly lowered the number of people it could be. But then again, it could have just been a ploy created by the creature just to tease her and it could be telling a total lie.
The demon could have been telling a half truth as well. It could very well have a human counterpart and it might be someone Sakura might know, but depending on the definition, that could mean it was one of her teammates to someone she see's on an almost daily bases. Sakura's bright green eyes focused on every single detail of the village demon's physic. Her eyes slowly trailed over every inch of his body, trying to find even the smallest hint as to who Venom's human body might be.
Unfortunately, there did not appear to be any physical feature of the beast's body that would betray such information. The pink-haired girl also noticed that the villagers were no longer running away from the beast and were instead observing his conversation with the Inuzuka clan-head from a very safe distance.
'What is Naruto-kun doing?' Hinata thought as she continued to observe Venom's activities.
'He's just having some fun darling. Don't worry your cute little head so much. If you are that concerned, why not go down yourself and show Lord Venom what all of your consuming and adapting as caused?' Ambush offered her host. Hinata thought about the idea for a moment before giving a nod in agreement. The young girl did a quick look around before hopping down into a nearby alley and moving out of sight of anyone looking in from the road.
Hinata looked around again, just in case, before stripping herself of any and all clothing and equipment. She covered her intimate parts while her symbiote slowly started to cover her body. As the alien tendrils crawled over her lithe form, Hinata removed her hands and bared her naked body for her other half to cover and transform.
"This will surely grab our darling Naruto-kun's attention." The combined symbiote and host said after finishing the transformation.
Venom was getting bored teasing Tsume and looked over at his pink-haired escort. "Are we going to go anywhere else or are you just going to stand there admiring our ass?"
Sakura snapped out of her thoughts before giving a cold glare to the monster. "Fine." And without another word, she started walking past the beast and down the road. Tsume tried to keep the verbal fighting alive but Venom brushed her off and followed behind the Haruno. The pair continued walking with Sakura purposely going to areas where people she knew could normally be found. She still refused to start a conversation with Venom and only spoke to him when he spoke first.
Unfortunately for the young kunoichi it appeared that a large number of the people she was hopping to see where not there at the time and thus she could not confirm who Venom really was. Again, the tour of the village was stopped by Venom, this time by him sniffing the air loudly.
"We have a guest." He said relatively softly while turning to where the familiar sent was coming from.
Slowly, out from the shadows, Ambush emerged flaunting all of her alien glory. Her once human-like feet were now the same clawed grasping toes that Venom had on his feet. The muscle on her legs was now more defined as well as has torn white stripes ran horizontally from the back of her heels all the way up through her legs to her back, the back of her arms and finally ending at the base of her neck. The markings along with the white skull-like mark on the very top of her neck created an image appropriate for Ambush's name. The female symbiote's hips had grown wider as well as the muscle on her stomach had become more well defined and obvious.
Sticking out just above her jiggly butt was three very long whip-like tails instead of just the one. Each was stripped like her back and each had a sharp retractable stinging blade. Ambush's already impressive bust was now much larger; yet did not sag do to the skin being tighter there than it would be for a normal human woman. The female symbiote's arms were as well defined as the rest of her body, showing the compact muscle underneath while not removing any sense of femininity from her overall form. The only change in her hands were the middle finger and thumb on both hands were now at least three inches longer than any of her other digits. Just like the end of each of her tails, the claws on the elongated fingers were retractable and had become more curved scythe-like weapons. Ambush's neck was now slightly curved and longer and her head had now become somewhat halfway between the normal symbiote head shape and Venom's. Her hair was striped like her back and staid in a constant hood-like shape while still being in constant movement.
Venom's full attention was on the female symbiote and drool could be seen leaking out of varies spots of his mouth.
A shy smile appeared on Ambush's face as she tried to not avert her gaze away from Venom's. "Like what you see?"