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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 42

"Are we finally all ready to go?" Naruto whined loudly. After waiting around the Masaki household for several weeks waiting; Naruto's patients had finally worn very very thin.

"Jeez will you shut up?!" Ryoko shouted down at the boy from her resting position in the rafters.

Naruto jumped up from his seat on the couch. "Why don't you come down and make us?!"

With a growl, Ryoko leapt down and landed right in front of the boy. "You think you can take me pipsqueak?"

"You want to take us on?" Naruto growled as he slammed a fist into his hand. He and his symbiote were just itching for some action.

"Honestly you two." Ayeka said as she put down the book she was reading. "Both of you need to calm down."

Both Ryoko and Naruto sent the posh princess death glares before returning to face one another.

"You think you can go against me little man?" Ryoko said as she reached over and gave Naruto a rough pat on the head.

With a growl Naruto swiped the woman's hand away. "Did you already forget what we are? We'll be more than happy to eat you alive grandma!"

The punch came so quickly that Naruto had to time to react at all. He was sent flying back; crashing through a wall and slamming into the opposite wall in the kitchen.

"Miss Ryoko!" Ayeka shouted loudly.

"Looks like the old woman has some actual fight in her." Naruto chucked as he wiped some saliva off his chin. He got to his feet and hunched over as his extra pair of arms erupted out of his back. "We'll be happy to oblige."

With a roar, Naruto charged at Ryoko with his arms drawn back and ready to strike. Ryoko charged at the same time, but with a ball of energy forming on her right hand and pulled back so as so shove it hard into Naruto's young face.

The two slammed into each other with Naruto using his increased mass to slam Ryoko back before quickly grabbing her shoulders and rising her up before slamming her down on the floor hard enough to splinter the wood. He raised her up again to slam her down again only to get a palm filled with energy directly into his face; forcing him to let go of Ryoko and cover his face as it steamed from the energy.

Ryoko created a sword made from the energy she collected in her hand and prepared to drive the beam weapon down onto Naruto. Despite being distracted by the burn in his face, Naruto was able to swipe the woman away with his claws before ripping the damaged flesh off his face. Naruto gave an angry roar before slamming all four of his hands onto the ground and launching himself straight at Ryoko like a living missile.

Naruto was able to slam into the woman and use the momentum to carry the both of them through the wall and right outside. Ryoko was able to roll away and avoid being impaled by Naruto's massive claws. When she finally got to her feet, Naruto was gone and Venom stood in his place.

Venom roared in anger before repeatedly slamming his hands into the ground in a violent display. Ryoko used the time to reform her energy beam/sword as well as ball of energy in her other hand. The space pirate launched a volley of energy beams at Venom; who easily leapt up and out of the way and proceeded to try and land on top of Ryoko but she quickly got out of the way.

Ryoko leapt out of the only for tentacles to erupt out of the ground underneath her right when Naruto landed. Ryoko flew straight up to try and evade the tentacle while sending down energy blasts to try and destroy them. She was able to get out of their range and quickly unleashed a volley of energy bolts down at Venom once again; but this time she did not let up for a good amount time to insure the complete destruction of the beast.

She stayed floating in the air, watching the smoke below slowly clear away only to see a large black tentacle shoot out of the cloud and wrap around her ankle. Ryoko was suddenly yanked down and slammed into the Earth below. She was raised into the air again before being slammed back down then violently yanked into the smoke cloud only to receive a powerful punch to the gut and being sent flying out of the smoke cloud.

Ryoko righted herself med air when another barrage of black tentacles shot straight for her. She attempted to blast these away too only for the tentacles to swerve out of the way and successfully slam into the space pirate. The tentacles wrapped around her neck, waist, arms and legs and pull her limbs out and away from her body; leaving her in a star-shaped position.

The smoke cleared and revealed Venom standing without injury with the tentacles sprouting out of his broad back. He pulled Ryoko close to him before grabbing her head with both of his hands.

"It's been a while since we've had a real good meal." Saliva dripping from his maw. He started squeezing her head as he opened his jaws wide and slowly drew her closer to his drool covered fangs. Several small logs materialized around Venom; drawing the symbiote's attention away from Ryoko and towards the now standing and angry Ayeka.

"Now, you are a guest at this house." Ayeka said calmly. "We have been very civil and hospitable to you despite hoe aggressive and rude you were earlier." The small logs slowly circled Venom as they got closer and closer to the beast. "We would appreciate it if you would return the favor!" The princess shouted as electrical energy arced between the logs before shooting out directly at Venom.

Both Venom and Ryoko let out horrible screams of pain as energy coursed through their body's and every single nerve throbbed in pain. Even bolts of energy could be seen coursing through Venom's multiple teeth and tongue as his mouth stretched wide in his monstrous scream.

Ayeka continued her assault on the two for at least a full minute before halting her attack and letting Venom release Ryoko and fall to his knees, panting. Ryoko was doing the same.

"Why the Hell did you shock me too?!" Ryoko shrieked at the princess.

"Oh? Did I?" Ayeka feigned innocence. "I must have forgotten you were there." She let out an arrogant cackle. Ryoko just growled at princess before turning to see that Venom had shrunken back into Naruto.

"Ow." He groaned as he held his head in pain. "That huuuuuuurt."

"Are you quiet done?" Ayeka asked calmly. Naruto looked up at her with a tired glance.

"Yeah." He slowly got to his feet. "What was that? That was not like any electricity we've ever felt before."

Ayeka puffed up in pride. "That was just a taste of the power bestowed upon the royal family of the planet Jurai." She boasted loudly. Ryoko silently floated over to the princess before poking a finger directly at the princess's chest, causing her to release her puff of breath into a very airy and feminine moan. A small blush appeared on Ayeka's face before being quickly replaced with one of anger.

Ryoko glared right back at the princess. "Heeey! Why did you shock me too!? I was trying to stop him!"

Ayeka turned her head away from the space pirate with a huff. "You both were acting like children and needed to be punished. And if I recall correctly, you enjoy that sort of thing anyway."

Ryoko huffed. "Coming from you; that felt like a virgin's first time. Now if it was my Tenchi." Her eyes lit up. "It would be so amazing!"

Naruto slowly rose to his feet. "Never felt anything like that before." He mumbled to himself.

'Better control your temper a little better.' Venom chuckled lightly.

Naruto growled lowly at his symbiotes snarky words when both were more than well aware who was truly responsible for Naruto's temper.

"What is with all the racquet?!" Washu shouted as she opened the door to her lab. Her face paled slightly as she saw the damages done to the house. She rubbed her forehead in annoyance. "I guess I'll have to fix that too." She ruffled her pink hair in frustration before shooting a glare at Naruto.

"Doing junk like this will not speed up my research any quicker!" She shouted at the boy. Naruto looked away sheepishly while Ryoko sent smug looks and mocking faces at the boy.

"And you!" She pointed at Ryoko. "Your older and should know better! This is not how I raised you to act."

"You didn't raise me at all!" Ryoko shouted as Washu turned back around and closed the closet door behind her.

That evening, not a single thing happened. Washu fixed all the damages Ryoko and Venom had caused and not even Tenchi or his father ever noticed. So, for next few weeks, all Naruto could do was wait and wait and wait and wait. The boredom was killing both the young ninja and his symbiote as there was nothing for really either of them to do besides occasionally helping with some of the daily tasks.

"Are you almost done?" Naruto whined as they all sat around the table for dinner.

"Almost." Washu said in a much too cheerful tone of voice.

"You said that over two weeks ago!" Naruto complained before shoveling food in his face. Ryoko made to interject but was stopped by a glare from both Ayeka and Washu; prompting her to close her mouth and sit silently.

"And I will continue to say it until I am done." Washu snapped in a manner similar to how a mother would when scolding her own child.

"Will you ever be done?!" Naruto asked through gritting teeth.

Washu paused in her eating and tapped the bottom of her chin with her chopsticks. "Hmmm." She thought for a moment. "Never!" She said in an overly cheerful manner.

There was a loud thud when Naruto slammed his head into the table with a loud groan of annoyance; Washu just cackled evilly.

Naruto's head slowly lifted off the table with exaggerated tears streaming down his young face. "We just want to go hooooome." He moaned.

"Then just go." Washu said rather emotionlessly.

Naruto straightened up before speaking again. "We really didn't want to do this, but you forced our hand." Those words drew everyone's attention directly towards the young lad with everyone preparing to bring out their weapon of choice to defend their friend.

Naruto reached into his jacket and pulled out a vial that contained a yellow liquid. He popped the cork off the top and poured the contents on the floor.

"We really wish you hadn't made us do this. Cuz this is going to suck." He looked over at Tenchi with sympathetic eyes. "We know your plight." He said as the yellow goo started to bubble slightly before two pairs of long arms slowly reached out of the puddle and quickly wrapped around Naruto's neck and waist respectively.

Naruto quickly grasped at the arms around his neck and tried to pry the hands off but with no success. The faces of Ambush and Payback erupted out of the slime and surged directly for Naruto when they suddenly came to a complete and sudden halt. Both of the symbiote women were stuck pressed up against the other from within the puddle; their breasts being too large to allow them to pass through completely.

The two struggled a bit before stopping and staring directly at one another.

"Well, one of us is going to ave to go down before either of us can get out." Payback stated matter-of-factually.

"So lady-like for you to volunteer." Ambush said in a sickly sweet manner while giving the kindest smile she could.

Payback glared at Ambush before shoving herself face closer to the other symbiote; causing their already squashed breasts to press up against each other further.

"We know what your planning with that fake innocent act; and we won't allow it." Payback growled at Ambush.

Ambush averted her head away from the other female symbiote. "We are sorry dear, but we don't have the foggiest idea of what you are talking about."

Payback just growled before shifting herself around more, trying to get free. Naruto decided to help and pulled on both of the womens' arms and was able to free them from the waist up; but know the crotches of the two women were pressed very firmly against each other as their large rear ends were now stuck in the goo portal.

"Get off!" Payback shouted. "Only Lord Venom may touch us there!"

"We don't appreciate you touching us there either." Ambush said in a calm, but irritated voice. "It's not like we are enjoying this." Her voice suddenly increased in pitch when Payback wiggled her hips a certain way.

Naruto glanced over at everyone sitting at the table. Tenchi just stared with a deadpan expression while Ayeka did her best to cover Sasami's young eyes; said little sister was doing the exact same to the odd creature called Ryo-ohki. Both Washu and Ryoko were watching with cat-like expressions written all over their faces and making 'oooh' noises while Tenchi's father was sprawled out on the floor with a dizzy expression and blood trailing down his nose. Mihoshi was the only one who looked at least slightly concerned for the two symbiotic women, leaning over the table to get a better look and muttering 'oh my, oh dear' over and over under her breath.

Ambush looked over at Naruto. "As embarrassing as it is to have you see us in this situation; could you please be a dear and help us, darling?"

"Please help Lord Venom!" Payback shouted. "If you do, we will give you a special reward." She ended with a very suggestive tone.

"What kind of reward is she talking about Ayeka?" Sasami asked her older sister in as innocent voice as anyone could ever imagine.

Ayeka's face turned a very bright shade of red. "I-I'll tell you when your older." She mumbled under her breath. Naruto tried pulling on Ambush's and Payback's arms in an effort to free them from the hole, only to have them both remain exactly where they were. Their large rear ends were wedged in tighter and tighter into the hole, causing their groins to press and rub up against one another more and more.

"H-hey!" Payback shouted. "St-stop touching us there!" Her voice tried pitifully to hide her growing arousal at the feeling of her lady parts being pressed up against Ambush's.

"D-Darling, please st-stop!" Ambush moaned.

Naruto did not hear either of the women and continued to pull on their arms. Several small tentacles sprouted out from the boy's wrists and slowly wrapped around the two symbiotic women's arms and bodies. The tentacles traveled down their arms, over and around their torsos before coming to a stop at the small of their back.

"Um, Lord Venom!/Naruto-kun don't!" Both of the symbiotic women shouted respectively. But their words came too late, as Naruto suddenly tightened his grip with his hands and tentacles; causing the long appendages to suddenly wrap tightly around the breasts of the women and move them back and forth. Both women started to moan and cry out as Naruto pulled harder and harder while trying to not pull so hard to hurt them.

The combination of the tentacles movements and the grinding of their hips was not helping either Ambush or Payback in their current situation. Naruto continued to pull while the women moaned louder and louder.

"N-Naruto-kun! St-stop please. DARLING!/Th-this is not how I wanted it!" Ambush and Payback screamed right when Naruto finally pulled them free from the hole. The amount of effort Naruto used caused him to loose his balance and fall backwards with the two women falling directly on top of him.

Both of them wear panting heavily and gave subtle twitches. "P-please give us at least a little warning beforehand darling." Ambush said with a dazed voice.

Payback put a hand up to her face. "Ugh! Why did we have to share that?!" She groaned loudly. Both symbiote women looked over at a table to see the reactions of everyone else. Nearly everyone sitting at the table was bright red and had some sort of expression that would either be gauged as interest, perversion, or surprise.

Ambush slowly got up and tried to stand up on her shaky legs while failing a few times. After a few tries, Ambush was able to stand up and slowly gave a bow towards the people sitting at the dinner table. "We wish to formally apologize for what just happened."

"We don't." Payback pipped up. "Despite having to share that with you; we had fun." She giggled as she pushed herself on top of Naruto. "Now, how about we show everyone here how much we really love each other?" Her eyes appeared lidded as her voice spoke hotly.

Ambush's hair suddenly became very active and suddenly wrapped around Payback's neck and yanked her off Naruto. "How about you don't dear?" Ambush said in a calm voice.

"Hey!" Payback shouted as she was held away from her prey.

After she could collect her thoughts, Ayeka was finally able to speak up. "Wh-what is heaven's name are you two doing here? Who are you two anyway?!"

"Why are you two hot?" Washu asked as she stared at the wetness still in between the two symbiote's legs.

Ambush calmly and politely explained who they were while also apologizing for the scene everyone just witnessed.

"As to why we are here." She continued her explanation. "Naruto must have summoned us here to help in his mission. Whatever it may be must be incredibly difficult or dangerous for Naruto-kun to resort to asking for help. He and Lord Venom tend to be a little head-strong."

"Hey!" Naruto shouted in an offended tone of voice. "The only reason we called you two is so that we could get this stupid assignment done and over with."

"We can't help you if you don't tell us why we are here and what we are supposed to do." Payback said as she finally wriggles herself free from Payback's hair. She took a seat at the table and pulled both Naruto and Ambush down next to her.

"Well," Naruto began as he eyed Washu with a sneaky eye before continuing. "our goal is to have her," He pointed at the pink-haired scientist. "come back to the hive with us. But she's being stubborn and won't just come along."

Both Ambush and Payback stared at Naruto in near disbelief and had to remind themselves that Naruto was still a rather stubborn child. Both gave very heavy sighs while shacking their heads. They both gave sympathetic looks to the people at the dining table before deciding to speak up.

"We assume he has been nothing but trouble for you all?" Payback said with a sympathetic look.

"Hey!" Naruto exclaimed.

"Your damn right he has!" Ryoko finally shouted out. "That little brat has done nothing but laze about and mooch off of all of us here!"

"Your one to talk Miss Ryoko!" Ayeka suddenly said; forgetting to cover her younger sister's eyes and allowing the young girl to see two pairs of massive alien breasts.

Sasami's red eyes grew massive as they focused on the orbs of flesh. "Wow!" She exclaimed softly. "They are so big!" Completely ignorant of the arguing that was going on around her.

"I know." Mihoshi said a hushed voice; her eyes almost sparkling.

Payback could hear their words and decided to puff out her already impressive bust. "They are pretty amazing aren't they?"

"They might be bigger than even Ryoko's." Mihoshi whispered as she slowly got closer to Payback's chest.

Pride swelled up within Payback as she focused more into her chest, causing her massive breasts to already increase in side while taking mass away from the rest of her body.

"You can make them bigger?!" Sasami gasped as she saw the pair of tits increase in size.

Payback nodded her head. "I can make them as big as I want; as long as I have the mass and energy." Her breasts continued to expand until they reached the table.

"Stop that!" Ayeka shrieked as her attention was drawn away from Ryoko.

Payback smirked. "Why? They girl is just curious." She raised her large and heavy breasts up. "I bet not even you can resist these babies." She then turned to Sasami. "You can touch them if you like."

"Oh, oh!" Mihoshi pipped up. "Can I touch them too?!"

"Please stop." Ambush said as she decided to take the initiative and cuddle herself up against Naruto. She wrapped her arms around Naruto's body and pressed her cheek against his.

"What are you doing?" Naruto asked in a slightly annoyed tone.

Ambush pressed herself closer before responding. "Just enjoying our contact. You should know darling; it's not just us that feel an attraction to you. Or host does too."

"You want to tell me who your host is?" Naruto tried to pry.

"She will tell you when she is ready. Until then, we will do as she wills." She turned her head to look Naruto in the eye. "And that includes claiming you all for our self." Her hand slowly crawled up his chest until it slowly cupped his cheek; her incredibly long finger circled around his head until it came to a rest on his temple on the opposite side of his head.

"We've never kissed a human before." She whispered as her face slowly inched closer to Naruto's. "Would you like to be our first?" Her voice was barely audible.

Naruto's face lit up as he felt Ambush slowly pull him closer. He glanced over and saw nearly everyone fixated on what was going on; as if it was a major scene from a drama or something. Even Payback was watching with baited breath; surprisingly not making an attempt to stop the ongoing event.

Ambush's large fangs retracted into her face by a small margin; still being rather large, but now just barely small enough for her lips to be closer to Naruto's. Timed seem to slow down for Naruto, all sound appeared to vanish in the world with only the pounding of his heart beating in his ears.

Naruto had no idea why he was feeling so nervous; he has given oral sex to Payback for crying out loud. Yet the boy still felt terrified of a simple kiss with Ambush. Was it because of how mature the female creature acted, or was it the fact that she admitted to her actions not being simply her own, but her host's as well?

Naruto clenched his eyes shut and prepared for the inevitable, only; it never came. He opened his eyes and could see Ambush mere centimeters away from his face, motionless.

"Fine." She whispered. "We will wait." She slowly pulled back and released Naruto's head. "She wants to wait and for it to be her directly to be the first. She still feels us as separate. She has yet to fully accept us as one."

"Argh!" The girls at the table groaned loudly.

She looked Naruto directly in the eye again. "Help our host accept us so that we may enjoy ourselves more. Would you darling?"

"It was so close!" Washu groaned.

"That was so romantic." Ayeka swooned as she started to go off into her own little world.

"You two were making a good show there. Maybe Naruto and us would make a better one." Payback said with a suggestive tone while trying to scoot closer to the blond ninja.

"Now now. We have a job to do." Ambush chastised calmly. She turned her attention to the pink-haired Washu. "Now would you please be a darling and come with us and help us with our goals?"

Washu looked over at the symbiotic women, then at everyone else sitting around the table before giving a heavy sigh. "There is no way I'm getting out of this, is there?"

Naruto, Ambush and Payback all shook their heads 'no'.

Washu groaned before continuing. "Fine, fine, fine. I'll go."

Naruto gave a heavy sigh of relief.

"BUT!" Washu shouted. "Only on one inarguable condition." She said with a single finger raised.

"I must be allowed to return here whenever I please AND I must be able to continue and start any experiments that I want."

"Fine, whatever." Naruto said with a wave of his hand. "Just as long as you come with us and do as you are told."

"Good." She stood up. "We can leave tomorrow." She excused herself from the table and walked into her different dimension lab.

"Well that was easy." Payback said in a cheerful tone as both Mihoshi and Sasami were busy squeezing the symbiote's breasts. "Gentle now." She giggled

Naruto just grumbled in frustration as he tried to ignore the 'oohing' of the two girls and the slight moaning noises Payback was making. He decided to leave the table and flop down on the nearby couch; planting his face in a pillow and tried his hardest to keep his thoughts pure.

Both Payback and Ambush giggled a bit at the boy's reaction. "It must have really been a drain on him to remain here without any action." The over sized breasted woman chuckled loudly.

"Sasami, stop that." Ayeka chastised her younger sister's actions.

The rest of the night went rather boringly with the only change being Ambush and Payback fussing over who would sleep up against Naruto with the argument ending with the poor boy squished in between the two buxom aliens.

The next morning, everyone was gathered outside and everyone was saying their respective goodbye's with Sasami and Mihoshi both crying over Washu leaving.

"It's not like she'll be gone forever!" Naruto shouted; getting glares from both Ayeka, Tenchi, and Washu.

"Just let them be." Payback said with a wave of her hand. "We'll get home soon enough."

"But we want to leave now." Naruto whined. "Our people need us. They probably have a ton of sacrifices waiting for us." He ended with a chuckle.

"No! Don't go Washu-chan. Please!" Sasami cried.

"Don't go." Mihoshi weeped loudly.

"It's only going to be for a short while." Washu assured both girls. "Since I'm the greatest mind in the universe; whatever problem they might have will be done and gone before too long and I'll be back before you know it." She ended with a wink.

Naruto stood there tapping his foot with his arms crossed as he watched them all say their goodbyes. "She's not going to be gone forever. Let's go"

Washu rolled her eyes before saying her final goodbye and walking over to Naruto and the symbiotes. "Alright, let's go."

Naruto turned around and was about to start walking when he suddenly turned his head towards Ambush. "How are we going to get home?"

"You mean to tell me you came here all on your own and had no idea how you would get back?" Washu asked in an exasperated tone while holding her head. She could feel a headache already coming.

"Your delivery pod is still around right?" Ambush asked. Naruto gave her a nod in response.

"Good." We can use that.

"It'll be a tight fit." Payback interjected before putting a hand on Naruto's shoulder and attempted to slowly slide it down his front.

"A very tight fit." Ambush stated while pinching the back of Payback's hand; forcing her to remove her hand. "We might have to liquify if we all wish to get inside."

Naruto gave a groan in disdain. "We hate doing that. It always takes too long to get back to normal."

"Don't worry yourself Lord Venom." Payback said. "We'll be sure to make the ride much more bearable." There was not a single attempt by the symbiote to try and hide her intents with the lad.

"You do remember that I'll be there too right?" Washu asked as she gave Payback a look.

Payback gave a nod. "Yup. Look at it this way; you'll get first hand experience in the mating habits of symbiotes and their hosts." She replied in a much too perky tone of voice.

"As interesting as that may sound; I think I'll just read up on it when we get to...wherever we are going." Washu responded with a deadpan expression on her face.

The group walked in silence as Naruto lead them to where his delivery pod had landed. Despite Washu not really wanting to go, there was no uncomfortable tension or anything of the sort between the members of the little party. When they finally reached the pod; they found it exactly as Naruto left it.

Ambush silently walked over to the pod and started to fiddle with the mechanisms within it. "Washu-chan." She pipped up. "Would you mind coming over and helping us with this?"

Washu walked over without saying a word and proceeded to assist the symbiote in repairing and adjusting the delivery pod. After only a few minutes, the duo stopped working and walked back away from machine with satisfied looks.

"Wow;" Naruto pipped up. "We never knew you were good with machines and stuff."

Ambush gave the boy a smile. "Oh, we don't deary. We just pretended to so that little Washu would be more inclined to fix it herself."

"It worked too." Washu mumbled to herself. "It's fixed and ready to go. Not a problem for the number one genius of the universe!"

"Shall we?" Payback asked as she squeezed her way into the pod. Ambush followed her and both gave each other looks before slowly melting away into their liquid state.

"After you." Washu said. Naruto reluctantly walked into the liquid coated pod and was almost instantly wrapped up in wet, dripping tentacles from both liquified women. Washu just shook her head before walking in and sitting down after closing the pod door. She then opened a panel and punched in something Naruto was too distracted to see due to the tentacles touching him in strange places.

With a loud bang; the pod suddenly lurched and fell over before suddenly flipping upside down and violently shooting straight up. Naruto was cushioned by the combined mass of Ambush and Payback while Washu simply stayed in place using her powers of levitation.

The group could only wait as the pod traveled across the sky, towards the home of the symbiotes. Washu used her weird hologram of a computer and did her own thing as Naruto was preoccupied with keeping the two symbiote women from touching his private parts.

After flying through the air for a rather long while; the pod slowed and came to an almost stop before suddenly moving downward with a violent jerk. The pod slowly traveled down for a short while before landing with a hard thud.

The pod door opened and several symbiotes could be seen scurrying about in the same room Naruto left in at the beginning of his mission. Washu looked at Naruto and decided to wait for the symbiotes to leave the pod before exiting the transport herself.

"Good see that you have returned safely and victorious." A random symbiote congratulated Naruto. "We informed Empress of your arrival and she will be here shortly. We will be happy to take down your mission report though."

Naruto nodded before looking back and seeing Ambush and Payback walking out of the pod with Washu following closely behind. The three women were lead aside as Naruto relayed the events of his mission to the other symbiote; who proceeded to write it all down.

They did not have to wait too long for Empress to enter the room. Only; she was not exactly how Naruto remembered her. The queen of the symbiotes had changed quiet a bit from the last time Naruto had seen her.

The queen's face had become elongated with her massive fang-filled maw taking up most of her face with her eyes being much smaller and further back. She also had two more pairs of eyes directly behind her main pair that were the same size while her antenna had become a lot longer and another, shorter, pair had sprouted just behind her main pair. Her hair was pretty much the same, just longer. Two extra pair of arms had grown underneath her normal arms but much more insect like and with only three clawed fingers on each hand. Her lower body had become centaur like with instead of a horse body was a very large abdomen that resembled more of that of an ant queen than anything else. Empress's abdomen was large and very pale white and appeared to be slimy and pulsating; all the while being carried just barely off the ground by over a dozen legs that appeared similar to her new arms. Let's not forget that Lady Empress was also now about twelve feet tall.

"Um..." Naruto stared. He did not know if he should be worried or not that his symbiotic half was attracted to the monstrous sight.

"It's just that time of year. Nothing to worry about." Empress said with an almost mocking tone. "We are populated enough as it is and our eggs have not been fertilized. So no need to worry."

"Hmmm." Washu mused to herself as she stepped closer to Empress. Before she could get too close; several symbiotes leapt in front of her with claws bared and threatening growls ripping from their throats. Washu gave the protective aliens a disproving look before looking up at Empress; who, with a small wave of her hand, calmed the symbiotes and made them get out of Washu's way.

Washu then walked over to Empress and slowly walked around her while looking her up and down inquisitively. "Hmmm. Hormone based physical alteration."

"More or less." Lady Empress said before looking at Naruto and the other girls. "You all will be debriefed while we go and explain to our new friend here what she will be doing and what is expected of her."

Naruto and Ambush gave Empress nods of understanding while Payback just hung from Naruto's neck while rubbing her face against his back. Empress took a while to turn around and begin walking out of the room with Washu beside her. Several symbiotes approached Naruto and his group and gathered the data about the mission before everyone departed to go about their own way.