Hello again! I've got chapter six read to go! There were a few characters added to Naruto's household this chapter, so next chapter will probably be dedicated to showing how everyone interacts with each other so look forward to it.
I hope you all enjoy the chapter!
(Marshalanime does not own Naruto or Monster Musume no Iru Nichijou)
"She's a bit of a trouble case, are you sure you can take her?" Ms. Smith asked Kushina over the phone. Typically it was one demihuman to one host family, but since Naruto took Centorea into their home Smith figured one more wouldn't hurt.
"I'm sure Papi will fit in just fine" Kushina's voice came through the phone. "Just let me know when she'll be coming over so I can get everyone ready" the woman requested.
"I'll be bringing her over later tod-" Smith was saying when one of her coworkers came over to her.
"Sorry to bother you Ms. Smith, but there's a problem" the man told her as he handed over three different folders.
Standing on the roof of his home Naruto was busy hanging another pair of boxers up on the line to dry. As he finished that he looked down at the laundry basket beside him. 'It's a good thing they gave us a new washing-machine, I don't think the old one could've handled this many loads' Naruto thought to himself.
Bringing his hand up to rub his cheek. Miia wasn't exactly happy when Centorea came home with him yesterday, though Centorea wasn't exactly pleased either. This slight soreness in his face was a bit of collateral damage from his attempts to calm the two girls down.
As he he leaned down to grab a shirt the blond's ears perked up at the sound of wings moving through the air. Looking up Naruto was just in time to see large, taloned feet grab hold of the back f his shirt and pull him off the roof. The short flight that followed was mostly spent with hoping this blue haired girl didn't drop him from this height.
Their destination appeared to be the park as the harpy flew down after spotting the place. Flying over a large fountain she brought them to a nearby tree before dropping the blond off on one of the branches.
After landing on the branch Naruto rested one of his hands on the trunk as he took in the girls full appearance. She looked like a young teenage girl with medium-length, messy, light blue hair with one curved strand sticking up on top of her head. Her 'arms' her large wings covered in light blue feathers. Her legs, starting from mid-thigh, were covered in scales, ending with large taloned feet. A lot of her body was visible since she wore short, cut off pants and a black tank-top.
"So... who are you?" Naruto asked the girl hovering a few feet in front of him. Already he could tell that today ws going to be eventful.
"A harpy! Papi's a harpy, is what Papi is!" Papi cheerfully told him.
"Wh-What?" Naruto questioned. He asked who she was so why'd she start by saying she was a harpy?
"Like I said, Papi's a harpy's..." Papi told him like he should've understood it the first time, that is until she started running it through her head a few times. "Wait, Parpy's Papi...? Papi? Parpipa Papi harpy... Papipa harpy Hapi?" Papi started muttering as she landed on the branch next to the blond, holding her head as she did so.
Deciding to help the girl out by changing the subject Naruto sat down next to her and asked "So why did you grab me?".
"Huh?" forgetting about her introduction the harpy looked over to the blond next to her. "Papi's not suppose to be outside by herself, so I brought you with me" Papi answered like it should be obvious.
"But I'm not your ho-" the blond was trying to tell this confusing girl when his cellphone started to ring. After reaching into his pocket and pulling out the device Naruto was greeted by his mother's voice.
"Naruto, where did you take off to? There's still work to do around the house and we need to get the place ready before Ms. Smith arrives" Kushina told the young man.
"Ah, sorry mom, I kind off caught up with this strange girl. Papi, I think her name is" Naruto told her.
"Papi? A harpy named Papi" Naruto heard his mother ask.
"Yeah... Do you know her?" Naruto asked, finding it a bit odd that she'd recognize Papi's name.
"Not really, no, but Ms. Smith said she'd be adding a new girl to the house, a harpy named Papi" Kushina told her boy.
"Well that's, quite the coincidence..." Naruto commented. "You hear that Papi, looks like I actually am... Papi?" Naruto was telling the girl, only to see she wasn't sitting next to him anymore. A quick look around had him spotting her head of blue hair wandering off towards and ice cream truck. "Sorry mom, I've got to go!" Naruto said as he jumped down from te branch, hanging up the phone before Kushina could say anything else.
"Papi, wait up!" Naruto called out to the girl as he ran up to her. When he did catch up with her however the girl gave him a rather confused look.
Taking a few steps back from the blond Papi asked "Who are you?".
'She forgot!?' Naruto mentally shouted as he started to wonder how this girl made it this far in live. After reminding the girl who he was Naruto ended up buying her a vanilla swirl while he got an ice pop.
"You've run off before? Isn't that bad?" Naruto asked as the two sat on a nearby bench. He figure that if she was going to be staying with them then he might as well get to know her, and he was quickly realizing that she may turn out to be a handful.
"It's okay! They never get mad when I fly off!" Papi cheerfully said, holding her cone with both wings. "But they said the next I do that, They're going to deflower me... What ever that means?" Papi said as removed one of her wings from the cone so she could scratch her cheek with the lone claw on said wing.
"I think you mean deport!" Naruto told her, though his words fell on deaf ears when her ice cream slipped out of her wing.
"Ahh! I didn't even get a bite!" Papi shot up in surprise, standing over her fallen snack. "Waaaahhh! It's so hard to hold!" the poor harpy cried.
"Oh well..." Naruto breathed out as he held out his ice pop. "You want a bite?" the blond offered. Without hesitation the girl leaned down and took the frozen treat into her mouth. "Um, you sure you don't want to hold it yourself?" Naruto asked, getting a garbled response as she spoke with the ice pop in her mouth.
As the girl bobbed her head up and down the frozen stick it became more and more evident how perverted this looked as people walking past them stared and gawked at the odd pair. "Okay! That's enough!" Naruto blurted out as he yanked the popsicle away from the girl and resulting in the harpy being surprised by the popsicle drippings that splashed over her body.
"Awww, I'm all sticky!" Papi complained after looking her body over, being covered in melted popsicle from head to waist.
"Ah, s-sorry about that" Naruto apologized with an embarrassed look on his face. "There should be a fountain around her so let's go wash you off... Papi?" Naruto was saying as he turned to look for a fountain, only to stop after a few steps when he didn't hear her talons clanking against the stone path behind him. Turning around he found that instead of following him in search of a drinking fountain the harpy girl had made her over to the large, decorative fountain in the center of this small intersection of paths, and along the way she seemed to have stripped down to nothing.
"What are you doing!?" Naruto yelled, running over to the large fountain as Papi hopped in.
"Isn't this a birdbath?" the girl asked as she walked around in the water.
"No! It's not!" Naruto told her as he rested his hands on the edge of the fountain. "But forget about that, why are you naked?" the blond asked.
"What? You don't bath with your clothes on. Don't you know that?" Papi responded as she looked at the blond from over her shoulder.
'I really don't want to be asked that by a bird brain like you' Naruto thought to himself, face palming as Papi fell backwards to soak er body in the clear water.
"Ahhh! This feels so good! I had no idea there was a birdbath in the middle of town!" Papi cheerfully commented as she floated on her back.
'This girl has no idea how to act in public' Naruto concluded just before one of Papi's taloned feet grabbed him and yanked him into the fountain.
"Stop spacing out and bath with me!" Papi happily said as she sat on Naruto's back.
Keeping his head above water the blond pulled himself over to the edge with Papi riding on his back the whole way. 'This is getting out of hand' Naruto thought as pulled himself up far enough to rest his arms on the fountain's edge. When he did get to the edge he was met with a familiar green haired eel staring back at him.
"You... look like you're having fun" the woman commented, kneeling down to the point that her face was barely an inch from Naruto's.
"Oh, ah... long time no see, ah..." Naruto attempted to greet the woman, though he couldn't for the live f him put a name to her face.
"...Kasumi... My name is Kasumi..." Kasumi introduced herself with a faint blush adorning her cheeks. It wasn't really his fault that he didn't know her name, they were all so taken with the taste of his blood that introductions fell to the waste side. Speaking of blood, it was so tempting for her to reach out and get another taste after so long but she really wanted to hold off on that so they could have a chance to talk this time around.
"Narut-Ghaaagh!" Naruto was giving his name when Papi pushed him back into the water.
"Come on, let's have fun!" Papi cheerfully said as she reached out with her foot to grab hold of Kasumi's shirt. With a surprised sequel and widened eyes the poor woman found her upper-body being pulled into the fountain.
As this was happening, Kasumi's exchange coordinator was running over to them, breathing heavily in his attempts to catch up with the woman. "Heavens above Lady Kasumi... You're putting this old man... through to much" the older gentleman managed to get out through ragged breaths after the woman popped her head above the water.
For such a shy woman she can really be a hassle when she has her mind set on something. The moment they got word from Ms. Smith that Naruto was taking care of one of his charges in the park Kasumi requested that they head there and proceeded to leave him in the dust once they arrived.
"Sorry, Mr. Bunji" Kasumi apologized, her lower body sliding further and further into the fountain as she raised her upper-body.
With his breathing returning to normal the man took in the situation. 'This is quite predicament' the man thought to himself as he watched Naruto try to cover Papi's chest with his wet jacket. "You must be Master Naruto. Lady Kasumi speaks very highly of you, so much so in fact that we've gone through the process of moving her into your care" Bunji said with a grandfatherly smile, eliciting a gasp from Kasumi.
"Mr. Bunji, please don't say such embarrassing things!" Kasumi told the man as she turned away from everyone while covering her beat red face with her hands.
"Oh my, is it really that embarrassing? My apologies Lady Kasumi" the man apologized with a heart smile.
"Wait!" Naruto called out, getting the man's attention as he waded over to the edge again. "What do you mean my care? How many people are going to be moving into my house today!?" Naruto asked the man.
"Do you... not want me...?" Kasumi quietly asked as her shoulders dropped and she started to give off a depressing aura. Immediately spinning around Naruto rushed over to her and attempted to console her, saying that wasn't what he meant.
"Hehehe, you're quite popular for one your age" Bunji remarked with a laugh as Papi moved over to wrap her arms around Naruto's neck. "From what I hear there were two others we failed to find adequate hosts for. No mater who it was they just couldn't live up to the standard set by a certain young man they met at a meet up" Bunji told him with a warm smile on his face.
"Two others?" the blond asked as he tilted his head up to look over at the man. That was when a cold chill ran down his spin, remembering the other two girls he'd met alongside Kasumi. 'I'm going to die' the blond thought to himself, already imagining the three of them draining him dry like before.
While Naruto was having his moment of dread Bunji's attention drifted else where. It wasn't a surprise that a crowd would form with all this commotion, but what caught the older man's attention was that none of the people gathered were watching them. Following where everyone's attention was the man's calm expression morphed into on of stunned shock. "Oh dear" the man let out before turning back to the three in the fountain. "Excuse me Master Naruto, this may sound like an odd question but how good are you at climbing tree?" Bunji asked, getting the three to turn to him with odd looks on their faces. In response the man pointed up, directing their attention to a little girl stuck in a tree.
"This doesn't look good" Kasumi commented as the three of them got out of the fountain and followed Bunji to the front of the crowd.
"How did she even get up there?" Naruto openly wondered just as Papi ran past him with nothing but his jacket tied around her neck,
"Leave it to Papi! I can just fly up there and get her to take off!" the harpy cheerfully said as she spread her wings.
"Papi?! Hold on a minute!" Naruto shouted, only to see the girl flop down to the ground.
After skidding a little Papi lifted her head up. "Ah, I can't fly... Is it because my feathers are still wet?!" the blue haired girl questioned as she examined her wings.
After gathering her clothes Naruto walked over to the downed harpy. "Listen up Papi, humans aren't like harpies! We can't just 'take off' and fly like you! Falling from heights can be really dangerous or even deadly for us!" the blond told her as he handed her her clothes. Leaning down he patted her head while giving her a warm smile, "It's good that you want to help, but let me handle this, okay?". After getting a slow nod from the girl Naruto stood up and headed over to the tree.
Getting up to the branch the girl was stuck on didn't take long and he was soon offering to help her down. It took a bit of convincing but eventually she got the courage to let go of the branch and reach out for Naruto's hand. It's when Naruto tried to tighten his hold around her hand that ne noticed something was wrong. His hands were covered in mucus from Kasumi's body from when he was consoling her and as a result the girl's hand slipped right out of his. When she tried to latch back onto the branch her hand slipped now that it too was slippery and she ended up falling after losing her balance.
'Shit!' the blond mentally cursed as he shot his hand down to grab her, missing by less than an inch.
As the girl fell the crowd gasped in horror, but before she could hit the ground Papi, now dressed, leapt up to catch the girl. However, Papi was still to weighed down to fly and so both of them were now falling. As the ground approached Papi's eyes closed shut in anticipation for the impact, only to feel arms wrap around her.
When everything had come to a stop the harpy slowly opened her eyes to see that she and the little girl were being held in Naruto's arms. 'Did he save me?' the girl wondered as the blond put the two of them down. As his hand came up to rub the top of Papi's head once more Naruto told her that she did a good job, getting a very happy smile from the harpy. Hopefully no one noticed how quickly he moved to catch them though.
Meanwhile, back at Naruto's house.
"When is Naruto getting back? I'm going to go insane if I don't get another taste of his delicious blood soon!"
"This is like, so unfair"
Naruto's two other blood sucking guests let out as they attempted to wait patiently on the couch. All the while Kushina was busy keeping Miia and Centorea from getting into a fight with their new housemates. Apparently they weren't thyled at the idea of these two drinking Naruto's blood.
'I swear Naruto, if you don't get home soon I'll put you through hell for making me handle this alone' Kushina thought to herself as her ire slowly built up to a boiling point.
