Black Leaves

Chapter 48

Ambush was the happiest she could remember being in a long time. Naruto was quickly losing one of the most difficult battles he had ever had to fight.

To put into perspective; the two were walking through the village hand-in-hand with the villagers whispering and gawking about as one would expect. Ambush was simply elated that she was spending time with the human she and her host admired so dearly. Naruto was trying his hardest not to stare at the symbiote's massive love pillows.

Now Naruto is used to seeing symbiotes in there natural naked form; but there was just something about Ambush that made his face turn bright red whenever he caught a good glimpse of her bare breasts. He did not know if it was the contrast in color between her breasts and nipples or if it was just simply how massive they were. Doing a quick comparison in his head revealed that Ambush had much larger breasts then any of the other female symbiotes he had yet to encounter.

As he tried to keep his eyes from wandering; Naruto could not help himself but really marvel at Ambush's form. There was just something different about her that drew his attention. A feeling that he had always known her despite only having met her a relatively short while ago. Sure, he could guess that she enjoyed a good fight as well as flesh and chocolate; but so do all symbiotes. But there was a feeling, a very small gut feeling that there was something else that he knew about her yet just could not remember.

His eyes slowly trailed back to Ambush's moving mounds and focused on the shine her smooth skin had when the sun beamed down on it. Her symbiotic flesh gave the appearance and shine of freshly polished leather; but it sure as hell did not feel that way. It was something hard to describe, the feel of symbiote skin, despite him being almost made of the stuff.

Holding onto her much larger hand; Naruto could feel just how soft and smooth symbiotic flesh was. Hairless over every part of the body for less wind drag while moving and only forming hair when the host or the symbiote deemed it necessary. As his eyes following every bounce and jiggle of Ambush's breasts; Naruto could not help but wonder if they would feel the same in his hands.

While she kept her head facing forward, both Ambush and her host were more than aware of Naruto's continued glances at their bosom. To say that she wasn't pleased with the attention would have been a lie. But she was sure to tease her human about being perverted when she got the chance.

"Here." She said while coming to a sudden halt. "This will be our first stop."

Naruto peeled is eyes away from Ambush's voluptuous tits to see that the couple was now standing in front of a large clothing store. He looked up at the store then to Ambush, then back to the store.

"But your naked." He stated bluntly.

"That does not mean we don't want to dress up and look nice." She stated while pulling the boy into the store. As one would expect, the usual whispers and gasps followed the pair as Ambush looked at clothes that were way too small for her and Naruto rolled his eyes in his lack of understanding of the whole 'shopping appeal'. They symbiote did not even ask to try anything on.

"Hey." Naruto finally spoke up after nearly an hour of silence. "Hinata wears a coat like that." He said when Ambush picked up a similar jacket.

"Oh?" Ambush decided to have a little fun. "And who is that?"

"She's this amazing friend of ours." He said excitedly; it wasn't very often that people asked about his very limited number of friends. "She is really quiet and is a bit weird sometimes. But she's really cool and has those neat Hyuuga clan eyes."

Ambush felt her host's flattered feelings. "Looks like you admire this girl." She said slyly.

"What?" Naruto responded with honest confusion. "Well, yeah. What is there not to like about her? She's nice, she listens when we talk, she doesn't give us those 'looks'. She is also really really strong!"

"Is she now?"

"Yeah! We spared once back in the academy and she could have broken my jaw if she wasn't, well, Hinata."

Looking at her host's memories showed this to be true. "Maybe we should have a talk with this Hinata." Ambush said while calmly walking over to a different clothing rack.

"Why?"

Ambush hide her smile well. "Well, it sounds to us like you really enjoy being around this girl. A little too much for our liking. We just want to be sure that she isn't going to try and steal our Naruto away from us."

"You don't have to do that!" Naruto said excitedly. He was more then a bit worried about Ambush potentially scaring Hinata out of being his friend. "She's cool. I don't think you have anything to worry about anyway. She's not interested in me like that. I think she and Kiba have a thing going on though." He said really quickly.

"For some reason, we doubt that." She said in an almost smug tone.

After a few more minutes Ambush said she was ready to leave, much to Naruto's delight. The two left the store and began to walk in a random direction with no real destination in mine.

They eventually made their way to the exact same park Hinata was in a short while ago. The pair decided to sit down on the exact same bench. Ambush was enjoying her time while Naruto was a nervous wreck. He was excessively conscious of every little thing he did, while worrying that one tiny wrong move would upset his symbiotic date. While Ambush had a calm, happy expression on her alien face.

As the two sat, a few small birds landed near them and went about pecking for food as small song birds often do. Naruto watched calmly but was taken by surprise when Ambush's tongue lashed out past his head and impaled one of the small animals. The birds was just as quickly yanked towards her gaping maw and vanished in the cage of teeth.

Naruto looked at her with an unreadable expression as Ambush covered her mouth in extreme embarrassment. Hinata was mortified.

"W-we are so sorry!" She apologized loudly. "We were not thinking and just did it..." She continued for a moment or two; apologizing profusely all the while.

Naruto let her suffer for a bit before giving her a smile and letting her know that he did not blame her. Sometimes you just need a snack.

Some small children were playing with a ball a short distance away; and as one would expect, one of the children kicked the ball too hard and it landed near the pair.

Naruto gulped loudly and started to visibly sweat. He knew what was going to happen. He knew where the author was going with the story.

The kids stared over at the pair, much too scared to ask for their ball back. Ambush gave as friendly a smile as she could; all things considered, she did quiet well despite the cage of teeth in her jaws. She stood up, walked over to the ball and Naruto's sweating got even worse.

Ambush bent down at the knees to pick up the ball and gently tossed it back tot he children. Naruto almost gave a heavy sigh of relieve, only for Ambush to unbend her legs, but still bend over. Giving the boy a perfect view of the most perfect butt he could ever have imagined.

He was more than aware she was doing it on purpose but he just could not bring himself to care. It was almost impossible to describe just how great her butt really was. Yes, her breasts were fantastic; but Naruto would be lying if he said he wasn't imagining several dirty things he would like to do to that rear end.

Ambush watched Naruto out of the corner of her eye and enjoyed his lust-filled gaze. She not-so-secretly wished he would act upon this urges, but she could understand his restraint. She wanted to tease the boy a bit more, but a much too familiar scent suddenly hit her and caused her to let out a very annoyed snarl.

She turned completely around to see non-other then Payback clinging onto a surprised Naruto.

"What are you doing here?" Ambush demanded loudly; her temper skyrocketing.

Payback gave Naruto's face a long, wet lick before responding. "We've been very needy lately and just wanted a good romp with our Lord."

"We agreed that today would be our day." Ambush hissed.

Naruto was about to interject when a black tentacle wrapped around his mouth.

'That would be most un-wise boy.' Venom advised. 'Remember what we have told you of our kind. The females are the dominate sex. We may be strong, but either one of those two could easily rip us apart a thousand times over. Two females vying for the same thing is not something you wish to get in between.'

"True." Payback responded. "But we've been in just a great need for our Lord Venom's nice hot dick that we just can not contain ourself any longer."

Before Payback could do anything; Ambush quickly approached and grabbed Naruto by the arm rather forcefully. "He. Is. Mine." She hissed lowly.

Payback smirk before placing a foot on the back of the bench Naruto was sitting on. "Is that so?" Naruto noticed a slit appear in between her strong legs. Naruto was suddenly very well aware of her hand on the back of his head. He became even more aware as said hand forced his face directly into Payback's crotch.

She instantly started to grind against his face while letting out several pleased sounds. Naruto was suddenly yanked away by a very strong pincer. He was just barely able to turn his head to see Ambush looking downright terrifying.

"Mine!" She hissed loudly. Payback just smirked before reinforcing her grip on the back of Naruto's head and slamming his face back into her wet groin. In retaliation Ambush growled loudly and shoved Payback with enough force so send her falling to her butt.

Still growling; Ambush used her amazing strength to hoist Naruto up, force his mouth open and latch it onto one of her large nipples. All four of her arms held the boy tightly to her body as her eyes glared viciously down at the shocked Payback.

The downed symbiote looked up at Ambush; stunned at what she had just done. Her shock quickly turned into anger however. She leapt to her feet and gave a nasty snarl while letting her hair and tentacles flail about wildly.

Ambush barked back with her hair and tentacles doing the same. She quickly put Naruto down behind her before brandishing her claws and fangs; ready for a fight.

Naruto tried to intervene once again, but Venom held him back. The symbiote knew just how bad of an idea it was to get in the middle of it now. In face, Venom sprouted a few tendrils out of his host to quickly and silently yank him away from the inevitable fight that was about to take place.

They two females hissed and snarled at each other before suddenly leaping at each other with Payback pushing Ambush to the ground. She instantly followed with a barrage of clawed swipes at Ambush's face.

Using her extra arms; Ambush was able to grab onto Payback's slashing claws and hold them at bay while unleashing a sudden stream of sickly green acid directly for the other symbiote's face.

Payback was able to bend her body backwards to avoid the dangerous stream, but was quickly swiped off my Ambush's own clawed arms. Payback quickly got to her feet and tried for another charge at Ambush on to be quickly caught in a web of hair and tentacles and hurled into the nearby fountain. Ambush quickly followed by spraying yet more acid from the back of her mouth into the crumbled decoration.

A small Payback colored sphere launched itself out of the pool before rolling around Ambush; placing small blinking devices all around her while she tried to swipe at the orb.

The ball unfurled into Payback just as the first device exploded; Sending Ambush directly into another explosion, then another. She was ping-ponged around by the small explosions until Payback leapt in and delivered a hard blow upward. The attack sent Ambush straight up into the air.

Payback held her right arm out and allowed it to transform into along cylindrical cannon. The cannon appeared mostly mechanical, but with symbiotic tendrils covering a majority of it. As she held it out, the cannon started to glow; softly at first but quickly getting brighter and brighter.

Several thick tentacles launched from Payback's form and dug themselves deep into the ground as she pointed her cannon directly up at the still airborne Ambush.

Everything went silent for a moment before a massive beam of blue energy erupted from the end of Payback's arm cannon. Her legs buckled under the force of the energy beam as the ground beneath her crack and shattered.

Ambush was barely able to turn her head and see the incoming beam before the powerful attack enveloped her alien from. The energy beam continued for a moment before thinning out and dissipating.

Payback scanned the sky for a moment before bringing her arm down and retracting her tentacles. Her head suddenly snapped towards Naruto.

The boy felt his blood run cold. Looking directly into her pure white eyes; Naruto could see Payback's complete lack of reasoning. The Payback he knew was no longer there and her mind was replaced by pure instinct alone.

A low rumble emitted from the back of her throat as she turned her whole body towards Naruto. This was one of the few times Naruto was completely terrified.

Even Venom was scared. Scared to the point of completely forgetting to even make an attempt to run.

Payback took a step forward; her eyes glaring down at Naruto as saliva started to drip from her jaws. Copious amounts of liquid started to flow from in between her legs as her intentions were made very obvious.

She took a step forward and Naruto took a step back. She took another, so did Naruto. Payback took another step forward. Naruto tried to take another, but felt something wrap around his leg and force him to trip over backwards.

He landed on his rear hard, but paid it no mind as his eyes focused on the danger before him.

Payback stood almost directly above the boy; her arms and tentacles spread open wide to engulf him. Until a large blade-like spike impaled her directly through the stomach.

The symbiote clawed towards Naruto while letting out a very angry scream; but her reach was just a little too short. Payback was slowly hoisted into the air and violently tossed away in the opposite direction of Naruto.

With her tail wrenched free from Payback's torso; Ambush let out a violent roar at her downed rival before turning her gaze towards Naruto. It only took the boy a moment to figure out how she was able to survive Payback's powerful attack.

Just like Payback, Ambush slowly stalked towards Naruto. Her intentions clear as her own saliva started to pour from her fangs. Unfortunately for her a very pissed Payback leapt onto her back and started to claw at her face; forcing both to once again focus on each other.

Naruto let out a sigh of relief only to feel something warm and slimy wrap itself around his waist. The appendage tightened around him before suddenly yanking him away from the two fighting females.

He braced for a hard impact, but instead felt himself suddenly slow down and come to a complete rest against a tree. He looked up to see no one other than A softly smiling Nightmare.

For some reason, the bandaged girl was wearing a school outfit. Naruto was about to question the get-up when several of her own tentacles sprouted from her back and quickly tied Naruto's hands behind the tree.

"Not you too." He whined pitifully. Nightmare simply smiled softly before giving Naruto a good view of her new outfit by giving a small twirl.

"You look good." Naruto said with a nervous smile. That apparently was the answer Nightmare wanted since her smile grew a tad.

She turned away from Naruto before putting her hands inside her skirt and bending over slightly. Nightmare slowly slid down a pair of cotton panties and stepped out of them before dropping the underwear next to Naruto's legs.

Still smiling, Nightmare placed one leg over both of Naruto's before slowly sliding down onto her knees and sitting right on Naruto's lap. The smaller girl looked up at Naruto before slowly sliding up his legs until both of the crotches touched. Her eyes never left Naruto's face.

Nightmare reached up and held Naruto's face gently in her bandaged hands. The contrast between her soft hands and the bandages simply reminded Naruto of what had happened to this poor creature. Her hands slowly slide down to Naruto's chest before slowly opening his outfit; exposing his tanned chest to the outside world.

Her hands caressed his exposed body in gentle wonder before resting on his stomach. She slowly leaned her head forward before gently laying it against his chest while letting out a content sigh. Naruto looked down at her as she laid there in silence.

"Well." He mumbled to himself. "It's better then the alternative."

As if to answer him, Nightmare's hips started to slowly move back and forth.

'Ah; the wonders of Springtime youth.' Venom chuckled. Naruto could only groan in response.

Nightmare continued to grind her crotch against his while letting out small peeps and whimpers. Naruto could feel his pants getting wet and tried as hard as he could to focus on anything else but what was going on.

Fortunately something did come by to distract Naruto. Unfortunately, it was a park bench flying directly for him. Nightmare saw the bench and quickly faded into her own dimension; leaving Naruto to take the full brunt of the flying object.

The good news was that Naruto was now free. The bad news was that the force of the bench forced Naruto through the tree and back quiet a good distance.

Not far enough however since the instant he started to get back on his feet, Ambush and Payback's fight started to head in his direction.

Naruto decided to do the smart thing and run in the opposite direction, as far away from the brawling monsters as possible. He continued to run until the sounds of the brawl were completely gone from his ears. He stopped on a random street and leaned against a wall to regain his breath.

"Naruto?" He heard a girl's voice say coupled with the sound of a door opening. He looked to see none other then his team mate Haruno Sakura standing in a doorway. "What are you doing in front of my house?"

The young Uzumaki looked up at the building. "So it is." He mumbled to himself before looking back to Sakura. "Well..." He droned for a moment. Seeing her crossed arms and raised eyebrow sent the message that she was in no mood for any playing around.

A sudden loud crash warned Naruto of the incoming horror that was about to befall him. "Come with us and we will explain." He said in a hurried voice before turning and bolting away.

Sakura looked at the trailing dust cloud behind Naruto before another crash sent her following after.

"What is going on?!" Sakura demanded when she and Naruto finally came to a stop deeper into the village.

"Something that we can't handle." He said while looking all around for any signs of the approaching symbiotes.

"That's not surprising." Sakura said with a roll of her eyes. Naruto decided against saying something snarky and instead simply sighed heavily.

"Either way." She continued. "Kakashi-sensei wanted the three of us to meet up at the Hokage's office for a mission. For whatever reason, he asked me to let you know."

Naruto was about to give a sharp response when a sudden explosion of dirt and rock behind his pink-haired teammate sent both of them sailing backwards. The young boy slammed into a wall and looked up just in time to see Sakura come sailing directly into him. The force of the impact smashed his head into the wall a second time and he could feel his brain slam into his skull.

The pain quickly faded as he noticed something soft and squidgy in his right palm. Naruto's blurred vision slowly came back to him to see and bright red and angry Sakura staring him directly in the face. He tried to focus both on her and on the squishy object he squeezed repeatedly.

"Naruto." Sakura said in the most straining-to-stay-calm voice he had ever heard her use. "Just where do you think you are touching?"

Naruto looked at her in confusion for a moment before looking behind her to see his hand holding a large handful of Sakura's butt.

'Looks like her butt is nice at least.' Venom chuckled. Naruto watched as the girl slowly raised her hand up, balled it into a tight fist, and slowly pulled it back.

"Aw man." He groaned right before Sakura let loose. However, another crash caused Sakura to halt her revenge and drew the pair's attention to the events happening behind them.

The dust behind them slowly settled to reveal both Ambush and Payback glaring daggers at both of them. Saliva dripping heavily from their jaws; claws bared and rage filled eyes stared down at the frozen teens.

Naruto's blood ran cold as the symbiotic womens' eyes narrowed slowly. Both of them took a step forward and Naruto threw Sakura off him.

"Naruto!" Ambush snarled slowly as nearly all the flesh on her tail pulled back to reveal the sharp deadly bone beneath.

Naruto quickly got to his feet and held his hands out defensively. "N-now ladies." He stuttered quickly. "We know what it looked like, but hear us out!" The monsters took another threatening step forward.

"S-Sakure, a little help here?" He asked before looking behind where he tossed the pink girl. However, Sakura was already long gone, leaving the Uzumaki all alone with the pissed alien monsters.

Ambush took another stomp forward only to have Payback smash her arm cannon into the back of Ambush's hooded head. Needless to say, that started the two back into their massive brawl; giving Naruto a small window of opportunity to escape.

He made a straight beeline for the Hokage's Tower without looking back or slowing down.

'How in the blue blazes are we supposed to calm them down?!' Naruto screamed at the only being that could possibly help the situation.

'Just lay down and accept fate?' Venom asked with a joking tone to his voice. 'Really though; this is no different then any wild animal staking it's claim. Unlike a large number of creatures on this planet; it is the females that fight over nesting and mating partners. Even within a hive, the females are allowed to help expand the population.' He then continued with. 'Pretty useful considering the hive empress can only produce a single spawn.'

Naruto had to nod in agreement in Venom's reasoning, but also groan at his lack of assistance to the current situation.

'All we can do is let them fight it out.' Venom said like as if it was common sense.

Naruto audibly groaned before finally arriving at the Hokage Tower. Upon he arrival, a bored Sasuke and a still angry Sakura were there to great him. The old man Hokage was more interested in the large dust clouds and energy beams that continued to appear through out the village.

Sarutobi slowly turned his chair and looked Naruto directly in the eyes.

"Hey!" Naruto instantly said defensively. "What is going on out there is not our fault." He said with a loud huff.

The old man pinched the bridge of his nose in aggravation. He was about to make a comment when Kakashi decided to finally show up and gave the old man the same bored look that he always had.

Sarutobi looked the ninja team over for a moment before picking up a folder off his desk and flipping through it.

"Team 7 is being hired to escort a world renowned actress to a village in the Land of Snow." He said while placing the opened folder upside down on his desk so the team could see. "You can see the actress and her manager here. From what we have been told, the only major threats would be overzealous fans as well as possible small time gangs attempting to get rich by kidnapping and using the girl as a hostage." He lit his favorite pipe before sticking the end in his mouth. "Nothing that you all can't handle." He ended with a sly smirk.

Sakura was visibly excited about the prospect of meeting someone famous while Sasuke was just happy to be finally on a more important mission. Kakashi was as bored looking as usual and Naruto was visibly upset.

"We don't handle the cold well." He mumbled when he read the expected environment this mission was going to send him.

Kakashi took the folder off the desk before addressing his team. "Alright, we will met up at the main gate in one hour."

"Two hours." Sakura was quick to correct her teacher.

"We will meet at the front gate in one hour." Kakashi reiterated. "Be sure to pack light, but warm. We will be using this opportunity to learn several fire-based and water-based techniques." He finished before taking his leave, followed by the genin.

"Wait for a moment Naruto." Sarutobi said quickly. Sakura and Sasuke both looked at Naruto with raised eyebrows before leaving.

"I am going to need you to do me a favor while you are all out on this mission." The old Hokage said while leaning forward.

Naruto gave the man a questioning look.

"We have gained information that Sound ninja have been spotted in the nearby area. So far nothing has been reported on their exact activity, but no sudden thefts or assassinations have been noticed. It is believed that they are purposely waiting there for something." The old man explained.

"Why are you telling us this?" Naruto asked. "Shouldn't Kakashi-sensei be the one you should be talking to?"

Sarutobi took another drag of his pipe. "Despite Kakashi being an exceptional ninja; what I need is someone that can insure that they will not be detected. And with the abilities that your other half has granted you; you fit the job."

Naruto could not help but puff his chest out in pride. "What exactly do you want us to do?"

"Observe. That is all. Engage only when absolutely necessary."

Naruto gave a bow understanding his orders and took his leave.

"Oh." The Hokage quickly said right before Naruto could walk out the door. "You will probably be needing these." He tossed a small bag at Naruto.

The lad caught the bag and opened it to see several dozen small square wrappers. He took one out and held it up with a deadpan glance to the village leader.

"I know how much you are going to need them so I just decided to prepare some for you in advanced." He said with a small smile.

Naruto put the small wrapper bag into the bag before several small tentacles sprouted from his chest and slowly shoved the bag into his body.

"Thanks." He said in a dead tone before finally leaving the office. He made his way to his apartment as quickly and quietly as possible and was actually able to get reach it and get in without being noticed by the two beings hunting him.

Being what he was, Naruto really did not need to pack much of anything. A dozen or so jars of symbiote nutrient broth and a sleeping bag. He looked at the bag Sarutobi gave him and groaned before taking it with him as well.

He took a quick once over of the things he was to bring before leaving and heading straight for the main entrance to the village. A loud crash from a fair distance away let him know that Ambush and Payback where still at each others throats.

Naruto arrived at the gate and already saw Sakura standing there waiting for the rest of their team. The instant her eyes set on Naruto, a fiery rage instantly filled them. The blond boy wisely stood a good distance away from the pink one and did his best to avoid eye contact for as long as possible.

Eventually, Sasuke arrived and finally Kakashi himself decided to show up.

"Is everybody ready?" Kakashi asked while pulling a book out of his back pocket. Another distant explosion could be heard.

"Let's go!" Naruto shouted enthusiastically, while sweating profusely. Sakura's eye-daggers were still trying to penetrate the boy's back.